Deaths in September 1990

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

September 1990

1

• Buster Adams, 75, American baseball player, heart failure.
• Afanasy Beloborodov, 87, Soviet general.
• John Wesley Burgess, 83, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Arnoldo Gabaldón, 81, Venezuelan physician and politician.
• Geir Hallgrímsson, 64, Icelandic politician, prime minister.
• Stefán Kristjánsson, 66, Icelandic Olympic skier.
• Alex Levinsky, 80, American-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Les Ramsay, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Edwin O. Reischauer, 79, American diplomat, hepatitis C.
• Derviš Sušić, 65, Yugoslav writer.

2

• Tom Atkinson, 59, English cricketer.
• John Bowlby, 83, British psychologist.
• Sári Bíró, 83, Hungarian pianist.
• Robert Holmes à Court, 53, South African-born Australian businessman, heart attack.
• Marcus Cunliffe, 68, British scholar.
• Erich Herker, 84, German Olympic ice hockey player.
• Jože Javoršek, 69, Yugoslav and Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, and essayist.
• Robert Francis Joyce, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Léon van Hove, 66, Belgian physicist.
• Mark Mauldin, 75, American baseball player.

3

• Slava Amiragov, 64, Soviet Belarusian Olympic rower.
• Marshall Bridges, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
• Fappiano, 13, American thoroughbred racehorse.
• Mieczysław Fogg, 89, Polish singer.
• Betty Glamann, 67, American harpist.
• The Minstrel, 16, Canadian-Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel, 80, British socialite, spouse of the prime minister.
• Victor Hooper, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Eugene Martynov, 42, Soviet singer, heart failure.
• Wang Zhenhe, 49, Taiwanese writer.
• Chen Tien, 67, Malaysian politician, Central Committee member of the Malayan Communist Party.

4

• Ignacio Luis Arcaya, 78, Venezuelan lawyer and politician.
• Lawrence A. Cremin, 64, American education historian, heart attack.
• Irene Dunne, 91, American actress, cardioplegia, heart attack.
• Turan Dursun, 55-56, Turkish author and critic of Islam, shot.
• Giuseppe Gobbato, 86, Italian Olympic racewalker.
• Willy Heldenstein, 94, Luxembourgian Olympic bobsledder.
• Alceo Lipizer, 69, Italian footballer.
• Alden Whitman, 76, American journalist, stroke.

5

• Allen Adams, 44, Scottish politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Beppo Brem, 84, West German actor, lung cancer.
• Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, 82, British colonial administrator.
• Alessandro Ciceri, 58, Italian Olympic sport shooter.
• Roderic Alfred Gregory, 76, British physiologist.
• Jack Hildyard, 82, British cinematographer, Oscar winner.
• Graham Hough, 82, English literary critic.
• Charlie Huneke, 69, American football player.
• Jerry Iger, 87, American cartoonist.
• Ivan Mihailov, 94, Yugoslav and Bulgarian revolutionary.
• John Naioti, 68, American football player.
• Karl-Heinz Peters, 87, German film actor.
• Frank Waldman, 71, American screenwriter.

6

• Madaram Brahma, 87, Indian poet and dramatist.
• Issan Dorsey, 57, American Sōtō Zen monk and teacher, AIDS-related complications.
• Tom Fogerty, 48, American guitarist, AIDS-related tuberculosis.
• Francisco Eppens Helgueras, 77, Mexican artist.
• Jack Howells, 77, Welsh filmmaker.
• Len Hutton, 74, English cricketer, complications from heart surgery.
• Beniamino Maggio, 83, Italian actor.
• Eiji Nakano, 85, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
• Elias Nakhleh, 76-77, Israeli politician.
• Herbert Spiegelberg, 86, German-American philosopher, leukemia.
• Fernando Valenti, 63, American harpsichordist, heart attack.
• Al Veach, 81, American baseball player.

7

• Prince Filiberto, Duke of Genoa, 95, Italian royal.
• Ahti Karjalainen, 67, Finnish politician, prime minister, pancreatic cancer.
• Earle E. Partridge, 90, American general.
• Clärenore Stinnes, 89, German racing driver.
• A. J. P. Taylor, 84, British historian, Parkinson's disease.

8

• Toon Duijnhouwer, 78, Dutch footballer.
• Gustav Gerhart, 68, Austrian Olympic football player.
• Joe Gleason, 95, American baseball player.
• Kathleen Gough, 65, British anthropologist, cancer.
• Dimitar Mutafchiev, 87, Bulgarian Olympic football player.
• Sven Rosendahl, 77, Swedish journalist, novelist and short story writer.
• Boris Tenin, 85, Soviet actor.
• Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 85, British children's author and illustrator.

9

• Nicola Abbagnano, 89, Italian philosopher.
• Molly Adair, 85, English actress.
• Louis Awad, 75, Egyptian intellectual and a writer.
• Doc Cramer, 85, American baseball player.
• Samuel Doe, 39, Liberian politician, president, torture murder.
• Alexander Men, 55, Soviet theologian, murdered.
• George Sime, 75, Scottish Olympic field hockey player.
• Anatoly Sofronov, 79, Soviet writer.
• Rimantas Stankevičius, 46, Lithuanian cosmonaut and pilot, plane crash.
• Hugh Sutherland, 83, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Harvey Teno, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.

10

• Charles Coleman, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Catharose de Petri, 88, Dutch mystic and spiritual leader.
• Svend Madsen, 93, Danish Olympic gymnast.
• Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow, 82, German flying ace during World War II.
• Zoltán Rozsnyai, 64, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.

11

• F. F. Bruce, 79, Scottish biblical scholar.
• Cai Chang, 90, Chinese politician and women's rights activist.
• Theodore J. Conway, 81, American four-star general, commander STRICOM.
• Myrna Chang, 40, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed.
• Byron Eby, 85, American football player.
• Julius Jacobsen, 75, Danish composer.
• Alois Kratzer, 83, German Olympic ski jumper.
• Iris von Roten-Meyer, 73, Swiss journalist, suicide.

12

• Irena Eichlerówna, 82, Polish actress.
• Archibald Howie, 82, Candian Olympic sailor.
• Ivica Kurtini, 68, Yugoslav Olympic water polo player.
• Jim Romano, 63, American baseball player.
• Nancy Ryles, 52, American politician, cancer.
• Athene Seyler, 101, English actress.
• Charles Walker, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

13

• Adda Husted Andersen, 92, Danish-American jeweler, silversmith, and metalsmith.
• George Hardy, 78, Canadian-American labor leader, respiratory failure.
• Marya Mannes, 85, American writer and critic.
• Giancarlo Pajetta, 79, Italian politician.
• Samuel S. Stratton, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

14

• Nazrul Islam Babu, 41, Bangladeshi lyricist.
• Wim De Craene, 40, Belgian singer, suicide by drug overdose.
• Varananda Dhavaj, 70, Thai royal.
• Leonid Ivanov, 69, Soviet Olympic footballer.
• Lőrinc Jankovich, 82, Hungarian Olympic equestrian.
• Lotus Long, 81, American actress.

15

• Ken Domon, 80, Japanese photographer.
• Mick Donohue, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Valentin Filatyev, 60, Soviet cosmonaut.
• David Lester, 74, American biochemist.
• Hans Malmstrøm, 77, Danish Olympic swimmer.
• Max Schäfer, 83, German football player.
• Gerard Veldkamp, 69, Dutch politician.

16

• James Francis Carney, 75, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
• Jesús Evaristo Casariego, 76, Spanish writer and publisher.
• Steve Condos, 71, American tap dancer, heart attack.
• Semyon Kurkotkin, 73, Soviet general.
• Oscarino Costa Silva, 83, Brazilian football player.
• Harold Palin, 74, English rugby player.
• John Staton, 88, American football player and businessman.
• Ron Withnall, 75, Australian politician.

17

• Lucien Barrière, 67, French businessman, cardiac arrest.
• Laidley Burge, 93, Australian rugby league player.
• Oliver Butterworth, 75, American author, cancer.
• J. F. Gates Clarke, 85, Canadian-American entomologist.
• Jackie Cox, 78-79, Scottish footballer.
• Janet Hill Gordon, 75, American politician.
• Joseph T. Maras, 74, American football player, and coach.
• Angelo Schiavio, 84, Italian football player and Olympian.
• Loretta Clemens Tupper, 84, American actress and singer.

18

• Gyula Décsi, 71, Hungarian politician and jurist
• Dinny Fagan, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Richard Eric Holttum, 95, English botanist.
• Marjan Rožanc, 59, Yugoslav writer.
• Ed Sadowski, 73, American basketball player, cancer.
• Walter Thompson Welford, 74, British physicist.

19

• Werner Janssen, 91, American conductor.
• Donal Keenan, 71, Irish Gaelic games administrator.
• Allan McKinnon, 73, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Ian Moir, 58, Australian rugby player.
• Hermes Pan, 80, American dancer and choreographer.
• Walter Tucker, 91, Canadian politician.

20

• Rosa Balistreri, 63, Italian singer.
• Siegfried Behrend, 56, German classical guitarist and composer.
• Claude Colette, 61, French racing cyclist.
• Dick Gyselman, 82, American baseball player.
• Lucien Konter, 65, Luxembourgish Olympic footballer.
• Thomas McGrath, 73, American poet and screenwriter.
• Attilio Micheluzzi, 60, Italian comics artist.
• Jackie Moran, 67, American actor, lung cancer.
• Ed Robnett, 70, American football player.
• Robert Rodale, 60, American publishing executive, traffic collision.

21

• Jacques-Laurent Bost, 74, French journalist, cancer.
• Jack Cockburn, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Sumner Getchell, 83, American actor.
• Frans Herman, 63, Belgian Olympic runner.
• Jack Hunter, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Takis Kanellopoulos, 56, Greek filmmaker, heart attack.
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky, 80, Soviet chess player.
• Rosario Livatino, 37, Italian magistrate, murdered.
• Tufail Niazi, 73-74, Pakistani singer.
• Frank Quillen, 69, American football player.
• Charles Calvin Rogers, 61, American Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, prostate cancer.
• Robert L. Thorndike, 79, American psychologist, heart failure.
• John Wallace, 87, American Olympic sailor.
• Xu Xiangqian, 88, Chinese general.

22

• Raj Bahadur, 78, Indian politician.
• John A. Danaher, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate.
• Michael Swann, 70, British microbiologist.
• Len Szafaryn, 62, American gridiron football player.

23

• Pål Angell-Hansen, 65, Norwegian footballer.
• Hilliard Beyerstein, 82, Canadian politician.
• William James Broughton, 77, New Zealand jockey.
• Harry Z. Isaacs, 86, American businessman.
• László Ladány, 76, Hungarian jesuit, China watcher, and author.

24

• Tim Archer, 93, Australian rules footballer.
• Kang Joon-Ho, 62, South Korean boxer and Olympic medalist.
• Zlata Kolarić-Kišur, 95, Yugoslav writer.
• Àngel Sabata, 79, Spanish Olympic water polo player.
• Ladislas Smid, 75, Hungarian-French footballer.
• Johnny Werts, 92, American baseball player.

25

• Wilfred Burns, 73, British composer of film scores.
• Stellio Lorenzi, 69, French screenwriter, cancer.
• Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, 85, Canadian politician, stroke.
• Sabyasachi Mukharji, 63, Indian judge and Chief Justice, heart attack.
• Kaharuddin Nasution, 65, Indonesian politician.
• Prafulla Chandra Sen, 93, Indian politician.
• Giuseppe Valle, 86, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Vjekoslav Vrančić, 86, Croatian politician.

26

• Hiram Abas, 57-58, Turkish intelligence official, murdered.
• Lothar Collatz, 80, German mathematician, heart attack.
• Cecil Gray, 88, Australian cricketer.
• Alberto Moravia, 82, Italian novelist.
• Saya Zawgyi, 83, Burmese poet, writer, and academic.

27

• John Aldam Aizlewood, 95, British soldier.
• Marie-Thérèse Auffray, 77, French painter.
• Matvey Blanter, 87, Soviet composer.
• Tom Crouch, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Carlos Guichandut, 75, Argentine singer.
• Seymour H. Knox II, 92, American academic.
• María Agustina Rivas López, 70, Peruvian religious sister, shot.

28

• Roy Francis Adkins, 42, English gangster, shot.
• Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, 61, Indian musician.
• Dan Davin, 77, English writer.
• Ray Hendrick, 61, American racing driver, cancer.
• Prince Karl of Leiningen, 62, German noble.
• Larry O'Brien, 73, American politician and NBA commissioner, cancer.
• Willy Schröder, 78, German discus thrower and Olympian.

29

• Scott Bartlett, 46-47, American artist, complications from an organ transplant.
• Jacques Boulas, 41, French racing cyclist.
• Raffaele Forni, 84, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, traffic collision.
• Lawrence Kasha, 56, American playwright, AIDS.
• Freddie Kohlman, 72, American musician, cancer.
• Hannes Koivunen, 79, Finnish Olympic boxer.
• Al McLean, 78, American baseball player.
• David Park, 54-55, British computer scientist.
• Patrick Tierney, 86, Irish politician.

30

• Alexej Čepička, 80, Czechoslovak politician.
• Ingvald Frøysa, 86, Norwegian footballer.
• W. F. R. Hardie, 88, Scottish philosopher.
• Rudolf Jahn, 83, German politician.
• Michel Leiris, 89, French writer, heart attack.
• Al Lolotai, 70, Samoan-American football player.
• Geoffrey Marks, 58, Sri Lankan Olympic swimmer.
• Rob Moroso, 22, American racing driver, traffic collision.
• Shankar Nag, 35, Indian actor and filmmaker, traffic collision.
• Phil Napoleon, 89, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
• Alice Parizeau, 60, Polish-Canadian writer, cancer.
• Nels Potter, 79, American baseball player.
• Ruth Cheney Streeter, 94, United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, heart failure.
• Patrick White, 78, British-Australian writer, Nobel Prize recipient.
• Zygmunt Zintel, 79, Polish actor.