Deaths in April 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1990.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 1990

1

• Benito Díaz, 91, Spanish footballer.
• Al Heagy, 83, American chemist and lacrosse player, stroke.
• Girard Edward Kalbfleisch, 90, American judge.
• Lillian Miller, 92, American television personality.
• Karim Mohammedzadeh, 26, Iranian Kurdish exiled dissident, murdered.
• Vince Pacewic, 69, American football player.
• Carlos Peucelle, 81, Argentine footballer.
• Nikolaos Ventouras, 90, Greek artist.
• Charles Spain Verral, 85, Canadian author.
• Russell Vis, 89, American wrestler.
• Bracha Zefira, 79, Israeli musician and actress.

2

• Bertha Pitts Campbell, 100, American civil rights activist.
• Aldo Fabrizi, 84, Italian actor and film director.
• Ted Hook, 79, Australian public servant.
• Peter Jones, 60, British broadcaster.
• L. B. Liddy, 84, American politician.
• Archie Lindo, 82, Jamaican playwright.
• Rafael Lorente de Nó, 87, Spanish neuroscientist.
• John Milton Roberts, 73, American anthropologist.
• İrfan Şahinbaş, 77, Turkish academic.
• Asbjørn Toms, 74, Norwegian actor.

3

• Katharine Balfour, 69, American actress, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Edward Carlson, 78, American businessman.
• Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 83, American industrialist.
• Lionel Cade, 71, American politician, emphysema.
• Trevor Gordon, 80, Australian unionist.
• Clair Huffaker, 63, American screenwriter.
• Frederick Keen, 91, Argentine cricketer.
• Gerry Martina, 62, Irish wrestler.
• Brian McGahen, 38, Australian LGBT activist, voluntary euthanasia.
• Willie Musarurwa, 62, Zimbabwean journalist.
• Sloan Nibley, 81, American screenwriter.
• Adolf Pabst, 90, American geologist.
• Edna Reindel, 96, American artist.
• Sir David Stephens, 79, British public servant.
• Sarah Vaughan, 66, American singer, lung cancer.
• Otha Wearin, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1939).
• Ivan Yarmysh, 65, Soviet Olympic racewalker (1952).

4

• Leonid Dushkin, 79, Soviet rocket scientist.
• Olev Eskola, 75, Soviet actor.
• Mark Fradkin, 75, Soviet composer.
• Andrzej Kobyliński, 58, Polish equestrian.
• Hubert Ogunde, 73, Nigerian theatre manager.
• Bernhard Rensch, 90, German evolutionary biologist.
• C. R. Smith, 90, American businessman and politician, secretary of commerce (1968–1969), cardiac arrest.
• Cesare Valinasso, 80, Italian footballer.
• Paul V. Yoder, 81, American musician.

5

• Lou Bluhm, 50, American bridge player.
• Robert Dixon Herman, 78, American judge.
• Louis Nelson, 87, American trombonist, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Vic Samson, 98, Australian footballer.
• Lev Skvirsky, 86, Soviet general.
• Bill Williams, 75, British Anglican priest.
• Peter Harold Wright, 73, British soldier.

6

• Patrick Barrington, 11th Viscount Barrington, 81, British writer and hereditary peer.
• Carsten Byhring, 71, Norwegian actor, cancer.
• Edward M. Carmouche, 68, American lawyer and politician.
• Peter Doherty, 76, Northern Irish footballer.
• M. M. L. Hooja, 75, Indian police officer.
• Joel, 85, Brazilian footballer.
• Slim Keith, 72, American model, lung cancer.
• James MacNabb, 88, British Olympic rower (1924).
• B. T. Ranadive, 85, Indian politician.
• Alfred Sohn-Rethel, 91, French-born German economist.

7

• J. Broward Culpepper, 82, American academic.
• Pier Lorenzo De Vita, 80, Italian comic book artist.
• Frank Egginton, 81, British painter.
• Ronald Evans, 56, American astronaut (Apollo 17), heart attack.
• Reuven Feldman, 90, Austrian-Israeli politician.
• Alex Kyle, 82, Scottish golfer.
• Dick Lundy, 82, American animator.
• Alan Marsham, 69, Australian footballer.
• Arthur B. Singer, 72, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.

8

• Emerson Greenaway, 83, American librarian.
• Herman Jessor, 95, American architect.
• Percy Kay, 79, Australian footballer.
• Bill Kelly, 91, American baseball player.
• Hans Korte, 90, German general.
• John Lee, 81, British-American hymnwriter.
• Tracey Lee, 56-57, Australian drag queen.
• J. Kenneth Robinson, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1985), pancreatic cancer.
• Bellan Roos, 88, Swedish actress.
• Doreen Sloane, 56, English actress, cancer.
• Ernest Steward, 76-79, British cinematographer.
• Ryan White, 18, American HIV poster child, AIDS.
• Zamazaan, 24-25, French Thoroughbred racehorse.

9

• Howard D. Abramowitz, 59, American lawyer.
• Daniel Aldrich, 71, American academic.
• Joe Asquini, 65, Canadian football player.
• Bill Bailey, 73, American football player.
• Aldo Bertocco, 78, Italian-French racing cyclist.
• Jack Dermody, 79, Australian footballer.
• John Henry Faulk, 76, American radio personality, cancer.
• Darrell Glenn, 54, American singer.
• Eric Lucke, 79, South African Olympic sport shooter (1960).
• James V. McConnell, 64, American zoologist, target of Ted Kaczynski.
• Mikio Narita, 55, Japanese actor, Linitis plastica.
• Theo Pirmez, 74, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Chips Sobek, 70, American basketball player.
• Astrid Sommer, 83, Norwegian actress.
• Hale Swanson, 75, American basketball player.
• Charles L. Towle, 76, American philatelist.
• Paul Trousdale, 75, American real estate developer.

10

• Margarete Adler, 94, Austrian Olympic swimmer and diver (1912, 1924).
• Wealthy Babcock, 94, American mathematician.
• Sir Hugh Trefusis Brassey, 74, British soldier and magistrate.
• Fortune Gordien, 67, American Olympic discus thrower (1948, 1956).
• Luo Niansheng, 85, Chinese translator, cancer.
• William Keith Neal, 84, English writer and antique collector.
• Gerhard Schrader, 87, German chemist.
• Harrison Lee Winter, 68, American judge.

11

• Najeeb Ahmed, 26, Pakistani leftist activist, murdered.
• Harold Ballard, 86, Canadian sports executive.
• Klaas Bolt, 63, Dutch organist.
• James Moss Cardwell, 64, American writer.
• Rudolf Cejka, 49, Austrian footballer.
• Dorland J. Davis, 78, American physician, cancer.
• Vanda Godsell, 67, English actress.
• Nina Kulagina, 63, Soviet claimed psychic.
• Leonard Leary, 99, New Zealand lawyer and writer.
• Ivar Lo-Johansson, 89, Swedish writer.
• Margaret Carnegie Miller, 93, American heiress (Carnegie Corporation of New York).
• Robert Reid, 91, American Olympic skier (1932).

12

• Bernard Akana, 70, American politician, stomach cancer.
• Gustavo Bontadini, 87, Italian philosopher.
• John Bowe, 78, Australian footballer.
• John Brown, 74, New Zealand racing cyclist.
• Borghild Bondevik Haga, 83, Norwegian politician.
• Sir Geoffrey Harrison, 81, British diplomat.
• Jef Lahaye, 57, Dutch racing cyclist.
• Otto Neumann, 87, German Olympic runner (1928).
• Yevgeni Nikolayev, 68, Soviet soldier.
• Henry O'Grady, 83, English footballer.
• Johnny Reder, 80, Polish-born American baseball player, heart disease.
• Mantu Sen, 66, Indian cricketer.
• Petar Šimić, 57, Yugoslav naval admiral.
• Irving Terjesen, 75, American basketball player.
• Albert van Schendel, 77, Dutch racing cyclist.

13

• S. Balachander, 63, Indian musician and filmmaker, heart attack.
• Ratomir Čabrić, 71, Yugoslav footballer.
• Ivan A. Elliott, 100, American lawyer.
• István Lovrics, 62, Hungarian basketball player.
• Sandy McLaughlan, 53, Scottish footballer.
• Hans Reinerth, 89, German archaeologist.
• Erik Seidenfaden, 79, Danish journalist.
• Luis Trenker, 97, Italian filmmaker.
• Louis F. Zarza, 80, American football player.

14

• Ahmed Balafrej, 81, Moroccan politician, prime minister (1958).
• Mario Frustalupi, 47, Italian footballer, traffic collision.
• Thurston Harris, 58, American singer, heart attack.
• Sir Frank Hopkins, 79, British naval admiral.
• Martin Kessel, 89, German writer.
• Alv Kjøs, 95, Norwegian politician.
• Günther Krupkat, 84, German science fiction author.
• Flor Lambrechts, 80, Belgian footballer.
• Doris Lusk, 73, New Zealand artist.
• Olabisi Onabanjo, 63, Nigerian politician.
• Marco Aurelio Robles, 84, Panamanian politician, president (1964–1968).
• Sabicas, 78, Spanish guitarist, pneumonia.
• Gerardus Siderius, 76, Dutch Olympic canoeist (1936).

15

• Ulrich Becher, 80, German author.
• George Henry Bolsover, 79, British academic.
• Cyril Brown, 71, English footballer.
• Jock Bruce-Gardyne, 60, British politician, brain cancer.
• Greta Garbo, 84, Swedish-American actress (A Woman of Affairs, Anna Christie, Camille), pneumonia.
• William Hart-Smith, 78, New Zealand-Australian poet.
• Helmut Lemke, 82, German politician.
• Spark Matsunaga, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1977), prostate cancer.
• Lawson P. Ramage, 81, American naval admiral, cancer.
• Soares dos Reis, 80, Portuguese footballer.
• Vuchko Yordanov, 74-75, Bulgarian footballer.

16

• Peter J. Grant, 46-47, British ornithologist.
• Ewald Kihle, 70, Norwegian footballer.
• Gregory Kolovakos, 38, American translator, AIDS.
• Roland Leckie, 72, Australian politician and judge.
• James P. O'Donnell, 72, American author.
• Stephen Shadegg, 80, American political consultant.
• Mary Talbot, 86, American entomologist.

17

• Ralph Abernathy, 64, American civil rights activist, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1968–1977), blood clot.
• Joseph E. Dillon, 69, American politician.
• Paul Dimo, 84, Romanian electrical engineer.
• Alexis Hocquenghem, 82, French mathematician.
• Joseph McMillan Johnson, 77, American art director, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Kang Chang-gu, 32-33, South African convicted serial killer, execution by hanging.
• Michel Labadie, 57, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Witold Łokuciewski, 73, Polish flying ace.
• Jafta Masemola, 60, South African anti-apartheid activist, traffic collision.
• Charles E. Sheedy, 77, American theologian.
• Nasir Subhani, 38, Iranian Kurdish dissident, executed.
• Louis J. Tullio, 73, American politician, amyloidosis.
• Karl Walz, 89, German politician.
• Aubrey Williams, 63, Guyanese artist, cancer.

18

• John Antonelli, 74, American baseball player.
• Daniel Compton, 75, Canadian politician.
• Bob Drake, 70, American racing driver.
• Gory Guerrero, 69, Mexican professional wrestler, liver failure.
• David Jones, 70, Welsh cricketer.
• Paul Kluke, 81, German historian.
• Anna Ludmilla, 87, American ballet dancer.
• Victoria O'Keefe, 21, English actress, traffic collision.
• Frédéric Rossif, 68, French film and television director.
• Robert D. Webb, 87, American film director.

19

• Paul Alexander Bartlett, 80, American writer and artist.
• Wally Coates, 79, Australian footballer.
• Dave Dexter Jr., 74, American record producer.
• Bob Kelsey, 64, Australian footballer.
• John W. Schwada, 70, American academic.
• Georgios Vikhos, 75, Greek Olympic sport shooter (1936, 1948).

20

• Francis W. H. Adams, 85, American lawyer and police commissioner.
• Arnold Alas, 78, Soviet artist.
• Indumati Bhattacharya, 71, Indian politician.
• N. H. Gibbs, 80, British academic.
• E. H. Hurst, 81, American politician.
• Alex McCrindle, 78, Scottish actor.
• George Reindorp, 78, British Anglican prelate.
• Horst Sindermann, 74, East German politician.

21

• Johnny Beazley, 71, American baseball player, cancer.
• R. B. Braithwaite, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
• Salvatore Cascino, 72, Italian Olympic racewalker (1948).
• Ralph Cowan, 87, Canadian politician.
• Erté, 97, Russian-born French artist.
• Frank Lausche, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969), governor of Ohio (1945–1947, 1949–1957), heart failure.
• Pavao Pintarić, 77, Yugoslav Olympic fencer (1936).
• Bogusław Psujek, 33, Polish marathon runner, fall.

22

• Little Joe Blue, 55, American blues musician, stomach cancer.
• Bob Davies, 70, American basketball player.
• Neville Ferreira, 79, South African cricketer.
• Leo Harris, 85, American athletics coach.
• Philip Houm, 79, Norwegian literary critic.
• Jan Hudson, 35, Canadian writer, pneumonia.
• Bud Maxwell, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Rosalind Moss, 99, British Egyptologist.
• Albert Salmi, 62, American actor, murder-suicide.
• James B. Sanderlin, 61, American lawyer.
• Gustaf Wejnarth, 87, Swedish Olympic runner (1924).
• Verda Welcome, 83, American politician.

23

• Jaime Andrade Moscoso, 76-77, Ecuadorian sculptor.
• Willie Bermingham, 48, Irish firefighter and charity organizer, skin cancer.
• Paulette Goddard, 79, American actress, heart failure.
• Mason Hale, 61, American lichenologist.
• Vincent Joseph Hines, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Michael A. Hoffman, 45, American archaeologist, cancer.
• Gordon McLintock, 87, American naval admiral, bone cancer.
• José Passera, 75, Argentine Olympic sport shooter (1964).
• Emilia Rensi, 88-89, Italian philosopher.
• Alan Robilliard, 86, New Zealand rugby player.
• Hayel Saeed, 87-88, Yemeni businessman and billionaire.
• Leslie Thompson, 81, English cricketer.
• John Tozer, 67, Australian politician.
• Jeremy Joyner White, 51, British scholar.
• Charlie Wilson, 57, English career criminal (Great Train Robbery), shot.
• Pete Wojey, 70, American baseball player.
• Teodor Zaczyk, 90, Polish Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).

24

• Vytautas Alantas, 87, Russian-American journalist.
• Erik Eriksson, 75, Swedish footballer.
• Carolyn Ferriday, 87, American philanthropist.
• Ewell Ross McCright, 72, American politician and soldier.
• Joseph Olubo, 36, British illustrator.
• Endel Pärn, 76, Soviet actor and singer.
• Anne Pride, 47, American women's rights activist, cancer.
• Kazem Rajavi, 56, Iranian human rights activist, shot.
• Vladimir Saprykin, 73, Soviet soldier.
• Laurie Yates, 67, Australian footballer.

25

• Irving Fiske, 82, American playwright, stroke.
• Dexter Gordon, 67, American jazz musician, kidney failure.
• Rufus "Speedy" Jones, 53, American drummer.
• John Watkins Oliver, 75, American judge.
• Bernard C. Schoenfeld, 82, American screenwriter.
• Hunter Vogel, 86, Canadian politician.
• Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr., 90, American diplomat.

26

• Myra Bennett, 100, British-born Canadian nurse.
• Bruce Hilkene, 64, American football player, cancer.
• Arthur Knight, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
• Jim Maguire, 71, Australian footballer.
• Menso Menso, 87, Dutch Olympic runner (1924).
• Marie Muchmore, 80, American witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
• Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, 38, Colombian guerrilla leader, shot.
• Wesley Rose, 72, American record producer.
• Albert Sloss, 79, Australian politician.
• John J. Winkler, 46, American linguist, AIDS.
• William Wright, 94, British flying ace.

27

• Keith Cosens, 57, Canadian politician.
• Tita Duran, 61, Filipino actress.
• Hal Gensichen, 69, American basketball player.
• Alyce Mills, 91, American actress.
• Ada Natali, 92, Italian politician.
• Malwa Singh, 44, Indian wrestler.
• Bella Spewack, 91, Romanian-born American playwright.
• Vladimir Stoychev, 98, Bulgarian general and equestrian.
• Chuck Weimer, 85, American football player.
• Earl Wilson, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1959, 1961–1965).
• Chunky Woodward, 66, Canadian rancher.

28

• Enrique Accorsi, 73, Chilean Olympic fencer (1948).
• Thierry Chaput, 40, French design theorist.
• Edwina Dumm, 96-97, American cartoonist.
• Peter Fuller, 42, British art critic, traffic collision.
• Reg Nicholls, 68, Australian footballer.
• Neil Watson, 84, New Zealand politician.
• J. Walter Yeagley, 81, American judge.

29

• Enrique Almada, 55, Uruguayan actor, cancer.
• Max Bense, 80, German philosopher.
• Mieczysław Burda, 74, Polish ice hockey player.
• John Churchill, 69, British Anglican prelate.
• Margaret Hance, 66, American politician, cancer.
• Carl Hellmuth Hertz, 69, German physicist.
• Snuffy Jenkins, 81, American banjoist.
• Sammy Lawhorn, 54, American guitarist.
• Elise Mourant, 68, New Zealand artist.
• Ray Poat, 72, American baseball player.
• V. N. Purushothaman, 81, Indian politician.
• Geoffrey Salmon, 82, British businessman.

30

• Ernst Berndt, 74, Czechoslovak track and field athlete.
• Ken Chisholm, 65, Scottish footballer.
• Harold Gray, 51, American football player.
• Herbert Jankuhn, 84, German archaeologist.
• Miklós Jós, 84, Hungarian writer.
• Reidar Nyborg, 67, Norwegian Olympic skier (1948).
• Angami Zapu Phizo, 85, Indian-British Naga nationalist.
• Mario Pizziolo, 80, Italian footballer.
• Joshua Prawer, 72, Polish-Israeli historian.
• Paul Sears, 98, American ecologist.
• Josef Velek, 50, Czechoslovak journalist, drowned.
• Antoine Vitez, 59, French actor and theatre director.
• Archie Wright, 65, Scottish footballer.
• Vasili Yermasov, 77, Soviet footballer.
• Mark Zborowski, 82, Soviet spy.