Deaths in August 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1990

1

• Michel Arnaud, 74, French general, heart attack.
• Roar Berthelsen, 55, Norwegian long jumper.
• Carl Ekern, 36, American football player, traffic collision.
• Norbert Elias, 93, German sociologist.
• Michael Glenny, 62, British academic and translator, heart attack.
• Lotta Hitschmanova, 80, Czech-Canadian humanitarian, cancer.
• Amos Hutchinson, 70, American politician.
• Robert Krieps, 67, Luxembourgish politician.
• Mary Teissier, 72, French socialite.
• Graham Young, 42, English convicted serial killer, heart attack.

2

• Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 44, Kuwaiti royal and sports administrator, killed in battle.
• Harry Allen, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Adonias Filho, 74, Brazilian writer.
• Al Guokas, 64, American basketball player.
• Norman Maclean, 87, American novelist.
• Margaret Matangi, 79, New Zealand netball player.
• François Perrier, 68, French psychoanalyst.
• Edwin Richfield, 68, English actor.
• Nikolaus Riehl, 89, German nuclear physicist.
• Al Rosen, 80, American actor, cancer.

3

• Nella Maria Bonora, 86, Italian actress.
• Bob Brown, 79, American baseball player.
• Thomas Dunne, 64, Irish politician.
• Len Gardner, 62-63, Australian footballer.
• Eunice Katunda, 75, Brazilian musician.
• Jeff Modesitt, 26, American football player, shot.
• Gladys Kathleen Parkin, 89, American radio operator.
• M. Ranga Rao, 58, Indian composer, cancer.
• Wilbur Schwartz, 72, American musician.
• W. M. Spackman, 85, American writer.
• Mariano Trigo, 89, Spanish water polo player.
• Paul Watkins, 40, American cult member (Manson Family), leukemia.

4

• Ian Allison, 81, Canadian basketball player.
• As'ad Syamsul Arifin, 92-93, Indonesian ulama.
• Chua Phung Kim, 51, Singaporean weightlifter.
• Bernard Falk, 47, British reporter, heart attack.
• Mathias Goeritz, 75, German-Mexican artist.
• Umar Khan, 70-71, Pakistani cricketer.
• Heinrich Lades, 76, German politician.
• Norman Malcolm, 79, American philosopher.
• Ettore Maserati, 95-96, Italian automotive engineer (Maserati).
• Wajahat Mirza, 82, Indian filmmaker.
• Francis Rowinski, 71, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Lajos Somló, 77, Hungarian Olympic jumper (1936).
• John T. Wilson, 76, American academic.

5

• Ivan Blatný, 70, Czech-British poet.
• Aldo Grimaldi, 47-48, Italian filmmaker.
• Jack Hubbert, 74, Australian footballer.
• Arthur Jessup, 75, Canadian judge, emphysema.
• Ellis T. Johnson, 79, American multi-sport athlete and coach.
• Kazimierz Kaszuba, 60, Polish footballer.
• Nils-Fredrik Palmstierna, 71, Swedish air force officer.
• George Quin, 76, Irish Anglican prelate.
• Revaz Tabukashvili, 63, Soviet filmmaker.
• Zhou Keqin, 53, Chinese writer.

6

• Aubrey Adams, 70, Jamaican pianist.
• Charles Arnt, 83, American actor, cancer.
• Taylor G. Belcher, 70, American diplomat, cancer.
• Leo Bird, 81, Australian footballer.
• Gordon Bunshaft, 81, American architect.
• Richard Deeb, 65, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
• George Dixon, 56, Canadian football player.
• Luis Lucchetti, 87, Argentine Olympic fencer (1928).
• Magnús Pálsson, 77, Icelandic water polo player.
• Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., 94, American general, bone cancer.
• Jacques Soustelle, 78, French politician.
• Pat Wall, 57, English politician.
• Frank Waters, 82, Australian politician.

7

• Larry Birdsong, 56, American singer.
• J. J. Daniel, 73, American civic leader.
• Tamara Deutscher, 77, Polish-British writer.
• Jean Lomax, 79, New Zealand netball player.
• Gebhard Müller, 90, German politician.
• Gray Smith, 71, Australian artist.

8

• Harry Bulpit, 95, Australian footballer.
• Andrzej Dobrowolski, 68, Polish composer.
• Bill Gallagher, 79, Australian manufacturing engineer, cancer.
• Joseph H. Harper, 89, American soldier.
• Franco Lo Giudice, 97, Italian singer.
• Sir Herbert Marchant, 84, English diplomat.
• Laurier Régnier, 86, Canadian politician.
• Joel Rundell, 24, American musician, suicide.
• Dorothy Garrett Smith, 58, American educator.
• Urho Teräs, 75, Finnish footballer.

9

• Dorothy Appleby, 84, American actress.
• William Bosworth Castle, 92, American physician.
• Joseph Marion Jones, 81, American statesman.
• Joe Mercer, 76, English footballer.
• Władysław Orlicz, 87, Polish mathematician.
• Pepillo, 73, Spanish footballer.
• Max Starcevich, 78, American football player.
• Art Van Tone, 71, American football player.

10

• Jacobo Arenas, 66, Colombian guerrilla leader, cancer.
• Harold Boyd, 89, Australian footballer.
• Martha Dodd, 81, American writer.
• Cookie Lavagetto, 77, American baseball player.
• Helmut Lipfert, 74, German flying ace.
• Sir David Martin, 57, Australian politician, mesothelioma.
• Eugenia Ravasio, 82, Italian Roman Catholic nun.
• Joško Vidošević, 55, Yugoslav footballer.

11

• Bonnie Baker, 73, American singer.
• Frank Dascoli, 76, American baseball umpire.
• George W. Della, 82, American politician.
• Dick Farrelly, 74, Irish songwriter.
• Gustavo Gaviria, 43, Colombian drug lord, possible murder.
• Asa S. Knowles, 81, American academic.
• Florio Martel, 67, French field hockey player.
• Guy le Mouroux, 72, French sailor.
• Charles Marquis Warren, 77, American filmmaker, ventricular aneurysm.

12

• Paul Cuba, 82, American football player.
• Ethyl Eichelberger, 45, American drag queen, suicide by exsanguination.
• Les Harvey, 80, Australian footballer.
• Ulrich Hütter, 79, German aeronautical engineer.
• Christa Jungnickel, 55, German-American science historian.
• B. Kliban, 55, American cartoonist, pulmonary embolism.
• Dorothy Mackaill, 87, British-American actress, liver failure.
• Sara Seegar, 76, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• James Stewart, 80, Canadian basketball player.
• Fay Thomas, 86, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
• Roy Williamson, 54, Scottish songwriter, brain cancer.

13

• Dallas Bixler, 80, American Olympic gymnast (1932).
• Caridad Bravo Adams, 82, Mexican screenwriter.
• André Canonne, 52, Belgian writer.
• Hedley Donovan, 76, American magazine editor.
• Inés Mendoza, 82, Puerto Rican writer, [First Ladies and Gentlemen of Puerto Rico|first lady]] (1949–1965).
• Jimmy Starr, 86, American screenwriter.
• Henry Swoboda, 92, Czechoslovakian conductor.

14

• Norman Cross, 74-75, Canadian sailboat designer.
• Henry Crown, 94, American industrialist.
• John Fox, 38, American writer, AIDS.
• Lafayette Leake, 71, American jazz musician, diabetes.
• Liu Xingyuan, 81, Chinese politician and general.
• Thomas Matthewman, 87, British Olympic sprinter (1924).
• Sun Lianzhong, 97, Taiwanese general.

15

• Dick Beattie, 53, Scottish footballer.
• Jimmy Carruthers, 61, Australian boxer, lung cancer.
• Lew DeWitt, 52, American musician.
• Bob Garbark, 80, American baseball player.
• Thore Horve, 90, Norwegian naval officer.
• Billy Hume, 54, Scottish footballer.
• Anita Palermo Kelly, 77, American politician.
• Inger Koppernæs, 62, Norwegian politician.
• Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, 76, Indian dancer.
• Tiit Kuusik, 78, Soviet singer.
• Arthur McMahon, 69, Irish Olympic sport shooter (1968, 1972).
• Jack Nagle, 73, American basketball coach.
• Eva Nil, 81, Egyptian-born Brazilian actress.
• Red Perkins, 70, American singer.
• Jimi Quidd, 36, American singer.
• Michael-Fredrick Paul Sauka, 55-56, Malawian songwriter ("Mlungu dalitsani Malaŵi").
• Viktor Tsoi, 28, Soviet singer, traffic collision.
• Louis Vola, 88, French bassist.

16

• Frank Asling, 78, Australian footballer.
• Dorothea Bennett, 60, American geneticist, lymphoma.
• Pierre Bonnet, 92, French arachnologist.
• Bobby Gordon, 54, American football player.
• Louis Kozma, 52, Belgian swimmer.
• Pat O'Connor, 65, New Zealand wrestler, cancer.
• Ernest Pogosyants, 55, Soviet chess player.
• D. Scott Rogo, 40, American writer, murdered.
• Ricardo Saprissa, 89, Salvadoran-Costa Rican footballer.
• John M. Walker, 83, American banker and physician, uncle of George H. W. Bush, aneurysm.

17

• Pearl Bailey, 72, American actress (Hello, Dolly!) and singer ("Takes Two to Tango").
• David A. Burchinal, 75, American general, cancer.
• Roderick Cook, 58, English actor and playwright, heart attack.
• Jack Duggan, 87, Irish hurler.
• James Thomas Foley, 80, American judge.
• Ian Handysides, 27, English footballer, brain cancer.
• Óscar Izurieta Molina, 80, Chilean general.
• Maria Paudler, 87, German actress.
• Sydney Sim, 70, Australian soldier.
• Larry Weldon, 75, American football player.
• Graham Williams, 45, English television producer, shot.

18

• Edmund Edwards, 80, Australian cricketer.
• Kenneth Flindt, 69, Danish Olympic fencer (1948).
• Grethe Ingmann, 52, Danish singer, cancer.
• Joseph H. Jackson, 90, American Baptist pastor.
• József Kovács, 79, Hungarian hurdler.
• Mary Shaw Shorb, 83, American biochemist.
• B. F. Skinner, 86, American social philosopher, leukemia.

19

• Olavi Alakulppi, 75, Finnish soldier and skier.
• Ilham Aliyev, 29, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Leifur Ásgeirsson, 87, Icelandic mathematician.
• Jim Cavanagh, 77, Australian politician.
• Maurice Custeau, 74, Canadian politician.
• Ercole Gallegati, 78, Italian wrestler.
• Tony Mancini, 77, Canadian boxer.
• Stephen Edward Smith, 62, American political consultant, lung cancer.
• Richard Strout, 92, American journalist, complications from a fall.
• Sir Edward Johnson Wayne, 88, English physician.
• Niels Werring, 93, Norwegian shipping magnate.
• Vasily Yefremov, 75, Soviet air force officer.

20

• Tim Barrett, 61, English actor.
• Fred Bennett, 83, English footballer.
• Howard Clifton, 51, American bobsledder.
• Bill Curry, 54, English footballer.
• Ayla Dikmen, 46, Turkish singer, cervical cancer.
• Wiley Feagin, 52, American football player.
• Madeleine Fritz, 93, Canadian paleontologist.
• Rudolf Gellesch, 76, German footballer.
• Maurice Gendron, 69, French cellist.
• Ray Johnson, 75, American football player.
• John La Nauze, 79, Australian historian.
• Olav Lofthaug, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Hobart Lytal, 80, American football player.
• Ike Sewell, 86, American businessman (Uno Pizzeria & Grill).

21

• Antonio Argilés, 58, Spanish footballer.
• Larry Buhler, 73, American football player.
• Jacques Champion, 55, French racing cyclist.
• Charles L. Downey, 75, American politician.
• Ed Glancy, 73, American basketball player.
• Bill Lasley, 88, American baseball player.
• Jerauld Manter, 100, American zoologist and photographer.
• Bob Uhl, 76, American baseball player.

22

• John A. Bolger Jr., 82, American sound engineer.
• Sukhamoy Chakraborty, 56, Indian economist.
• Luigi Dadaglio, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Patrick McAlinney, 76, Irish actor.
• Edward W. Pattison, 58, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1979), liver cancer.
• Boris Shcherbina, 70, Soviet politician.
• Lynne S. Warm-Griffiths, 67, American philatelist.
• Boogie Bill Webb, 66, American musician.
• Bobby Williamson, 56, Scottish footballer.

23

• Virgil Ballard, 86, American basketball coach.
• Samuel J. Brown, 72, American fighter pilot.
• Charles, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, 86, German noble, head of the house of Löwenstein-Wertheim (since 1952).
• Ron Clegg, 62, Australian footballer.
• Yutaka Kanai, 30, Japanese Olympic runner (1984).
• Billy King, 70, Australian footballer.
• Mirko Malez, 65, Yugoslav archaeologist.
• Parviz Natel-Khanlari, 76, Iranian politician.
• David W. Peck, 87, American judge.
• Pedro Pérez Pimentel, 86, Puerto Rican judge.
• Jean Robertson, 76, British literary scholar.
• David Rose, 80, American songwriter ("The Stripper"), heart attack.
• Omero Tognon, 66, Italian footballer.

24

• Rocco Clarizio, 73, American politician.
• Sergei Dovlatov, 48, Soviet writer, heart failure.
• Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, 89, British politician and artist.
• Harold Masursky, 67, American geologist.
• Samuel Mayes, 73, American cellist.
• Nick Metz, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Pumpkin, 29, American hip hop musician.
• Gely Abdel Rahman, 58-59, Sudanese poet, complications from surgery.
• Leslie Raisbeck, 83, English footballer.
• Jack Sanders, 86, Australian footballer.
• Ken Whillans, 63, Canadian politician, drowned.
• Mickey Witek, 74, American baseball player.

25

• Willard L. Beaulac, 91, American diplomat, Alzheimer's disease.
• Morley Callaghan, 87, Canadian writer.
• Lud Fiser, 81, American sports player and coach.
• Paul Fitchen, 88, American banker, complications from surgery.
• David Hampshire, 72, British racing driver.
• Herman J. Kording, 86, American politician.
• Jørleif Uthaug, 79, Norwegian artist.

26

• Talbert Abrams, 95, American photographer.
• Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, 90, British politician.
• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, 61, Iranian poet.
• Joseph R. Byrne, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John Boyle Chapple, 81, Canadian politician.
• Sture Ericson, 61, Swedish Olympic athlete (1960).
• Stuart Hamilton, 71, Australian footballer.
• Minoru Honda, 77, Japanese astronomer.
• Rudolf Marić, 63, Yugoslav chess player.
• Lilí Martínez, 75, Cuban musician.
• Roh Ogura, 74, Japanese composer.
• Mário Pinto de Andrade, 62, Angolan poet and politician.
• Paul Potts, 79, British-born Canadian poet.
• Krešo Pukšec, 69, Yugoslav footballer.
• Frederick Christian Schang, 96, American talent agent.
• Retta Scott, 74, American animator.
• Tang Chang, 56, Thai poet and artist.
• Harold Taylor, 80, English cricketer.
• Tom Toner, 40, American football player.

27

• Avdy Andresson, 90, Soviet politician.
• Ed Balatti, 66, American football player.
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 84, Australian historian.
• Armin Scheurer, 72, Swiss athlete and football coach.
• Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma.
• Tom Topping, 55, American football player.
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, American blues musician, helicopter crash.

28

• Sumitra Devi, 67, Indian actress.
• Mortimer P. Gallivan, 76, American politician.
• Pamela Harrison, 74, English musician.
• Larry Jackson, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
• Gedeon Ladányi, 76, Hungarian Olympic skater (1948).
• Richard Lauffen, 83, German actor.
• Edmund H. North, 79, American screenwriter.
• Rosely Roth, 31, Brazilian LGBT activist, suicide.
• Paul Rowe, 73, Canadian football player.
• Victorio Spinetto, 79, Argentine footballer.
• DeWitt Stetten Jr., 81, American biochemist.
• Eva Stiberg, 69, Swedish actress.
• Patience Strong, 83, British poet.
• Willy Vandersteen, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Spike and Suzy).
• Robert Jan Verbelen, 79, Belgian Nazi collaborator.
• Earl Ernest Veron, 68, American judge, heart failure.

29

• Luigi Beccali, 82, Italian Olympic runner (1932).
• Manly P. Hall, 89, Canadian philosopher.
• Solomon Mikhlin, 82, Soviet mathematician, stroke.
• Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
• Juozas Vinča, 84, Lithuanian-American boxer.

30

• Rhett Baynes, 26, Australian footballer, suicide.
• Vander L. Beatty, 49, American politician, murdered.
• Ch'ien Mu, 95, Chinese-Taiwanese historian and philosopher.
• Lou Garland, 85, American baseball player.
• Lawrence Joyce Kenney, 60, American Roman Catholic prelate.
• Edmund G. Love, 78, American author, heart attack.
• Geoffrey Marks, 58, Sri Lankan swimmer.
• Dan C. Ogle, 88, American surgeon general.
• T. R. Shamanna, 78, Indian politician.
• Bernard D. H. Tellegen, 90, Dutch electrical engineer.

31

• Bert Assirati, 82, English professional wrestler, bladder cancer.
• Nathaniel Clifton, 67, American basketball player.
• James H. Donovan, 66, American politician, colon cancer.
• André Dufau, 85, French Olympic sprinter (1928).
• Frank Hindman Golay, 75, American economist.
• Henry From, 64, Danish footballer.
• Mumtaz Ali Khan, 70, Bangladeshi musician.
• Johnny Lindsay, 81, South African cricketer.
• Jack Marshall, 82, American baseball player.
• Gaston Z. Ortigas, 59, Filipino anti-authoritarian activist.
• Jack C. Rowan, 79, American football coach.
• Frank Thewlis, 72, British Methodist preacher.
• Sergey Volkov, 41, Soviet figure skater, stomach cancer.