Deaths in October 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1990

1

• Hazel Adair, 90, British novelist.
• John Stewart Bell, 62, Northern Irish physicist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Tom Clifford, 66, Irish rugby player.
• June Emerson, 66, Canadian baseball player.
• Jean Flammang, 85, Luxembourgian boxer.
• Molly Gourlay, 92, British golfer.
• Sir Edmund George Irving, 80, British hydrographer.
• Andrzej Krzanowski, 39, Polish composer.
• Augustin Laurent, 94, French politician.
• Curtis LeMay, 83, American general, heart attack.
• Phil Napoleon, 89, American trumpeter.
• Lee Rogers, 50-51, American singer.
• Russell Thacher, 71, American film producer (Soylent Green), complications from surgery.
• Tommy Thompson, 63, American football player, cancer.
• Walter R. Tucker Jr., 66, American politician, stomach cancer.

2

• Peter Herman Adler, 90, Austrian-born American conductor.
• John Groff, 100, American general, heart attack.
• James Johnson, 72, South African naval admiral.
• Eldon Mason, 88, American baseball player.
• Edward McBroom, 65, American politician.
• Jaime Mendes, 77, Portuguese Olympic long-distance runner (1936.
• Loni Nest, 75, German actress.
• Isolina Rondón, 77, Puerto Rican nationalist.
• Fred Rwigyema, 33, Rwandan soldier, shot.
• Heinie Schuble, 83, American baseball player.
• Herbert Söllner, 55, German Olympic speed skater (1960.
• Norbert Vesak, 53, Canadian choreographer, brain aneurysm.
• Evelyn Young, 62, American saxophonist.

3

• Beatrice Alexander, 95, American dollmaker.
• Winslow Ames, 83, American art historian, heart attack.
• Amy Bailey, 94, Jamaican civil rights activist.
• R. E. Barrett, 86, Canadian politician.
• Charlotte Boyle, 91, American swimmer.
• Stefano Casiraghi, 30, Italian powerboat racer, boating accident.
• Esmond de Beer, 95, New Zealand literary scholar.
• André Grabar, 94, Russian-born French art historian.
• Edward D. "Ted" Jones, 64, American financier.
• Res Jost, 72, Swiss theoretical physicist.
• Ellis Pringle, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
• James N. Robertson, 77, American politician.
• Eleanor Steber, 76, American opera singer, complications from heart surgery.
• Bill White, 73, Australian footballer.

4

• Alyn Ainsworth, 66, British musician.
• Jill Bennett, 58, English actress, drug overdose.
• Avis Bunnage, 67, English actress.
• Erwin Bünning, 84, German biologist.
• Luciano Catenacci, 57, Italian actor.
• Roy Charman, 60, English sound engineer.
• Vance Dinges, 75, American baseball player.
• George Gordon, 88, Australian footballer.
• Ollie Jones, 66, American songwriter.
• Sergey Lapin, 78, Soviet diplomat.
• František Nekolný, 82, Czechoslovak boxer.
• Waldemar Philippi, 61, German footballer.
• Leonard Staisey, 69, American politician.
• Ray Stephens, 35, American singer (Village People) and actor (The Great Space Coaster), AIDS.
• Peter Taylor, 62, English footballer.
• Frederick Unwin, 79, English cricketer.
• Mārtiņš Zīverts, 87, Soviet Latvian playwright.

5

• Arthur Bonitto, 76, Jamaican cricketer.
• Félix Dafauce, 93, Spanish actor.
• Lilián del Río, 59, Argentine actress, lung cancer.
• Marvin Gelber, 77, Canadian politician.
• Dixie Howell, 70, American baseball player.
• George Hunter, 60, Scottish footballer.
• J. Murray Mitchell, 62, American climatologist.
• Sam Taylor, 74, American saxophonist.
• Đorđe Vujadinović, 80, Yugoslav footballer.
• Jan Hendrik Waszink, 81, Dutch Latin scholar.

6

• James E. Newcom, 85, American film editor.
• Dane Prugh, 72, American psychiatrist.
• Danny Rodriguez, 22, American rapper, shot.
• Richard P. Ross Jr., 84, American general.
• Géza Samu, 42, Hungarian sculptor.
• Dick Starzyk, 69, American basketball player.
• Bahriye Üçok, 70-71, Turkish politician and journalist, assassinated.
• Henryk Vogelfänger, 86, Polish actor.
• Arne H. Wicklund, 64, American politician and judge.

7

• Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, 78, Emirati politician, prime minister (since 1979).
• Chiara Badano, 18, Italian Catholic activist, osteosarcoma.
• Bellarmino Bagatti, 84, Italian archaeologist.
• Darrel Brown, 67, American basketball player.
• Scott M. Matheson, 61, American politician, governor of Utah (1977–1985), multiple myeloma.
• David Mycock, 69, English footballer.
• Grim Natwick, 100, American animator (Fleischer Studios), pneumonia.
• Walt Ripley, 73, American baseball player.
• Manuel Ramos Otero, 42, Puerto Rican writer, AIDS.
• Cat Thompson, 84, American basketball player.

8

• Juan José Arévalo, 86, Guatemalan politician, president (1945–1951).
• Frank Cope, 74, American football player.
• Han Young-suk, 70, South Korean dancer.
• William Henry Harrison III, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1955, 1961–1965, 1967–1969), heart failure.
• William James Jameson, 92, American judge.
• Jeppe Johannes Ladegaard-Mikkelsen, 75, Danish Olympic equestrian (1948).
• Jimmy Mills, 96, Scottish-American footballer.
• Robert F. Murphy, 66, American anthropologist, heart failure.
• Chub Reynolds, 58, American sports coach.
• Kamalapati Tripathi, 85, Indian politician.
• Eric Wennström, 81, Swedish 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 (1936).
• Sarah Thomas Curwood, 74, American academic.
• Georges de Rham, 87, Swiss mathematician.
• Dessie Grew, 37, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
• Markku Hakulinen, 34, Finnish ice hockey player, suicide by train collision.
• John Holland, 78, New Zealand Anglican prelate.
• 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 (1961–1971).
• Géza Ottlik, 78, Hungarian writer and mathematician.
• Boris Paichadze, 75, Soviet footballer.
• Terry Rossland, 38, American man, attempted suicide by car bombing, suicide by drug overdose.
• Lars Thörn, 86, Swedish sailor.

10

• George Barnicle, 73, American baseball player.
• Stan Brookshire, 85, American politician.
• Sir Kenneth Cross, 74, British physiologist.
• Armin Dassler, 61, German businessman (Puma).
• Emil Josef Diemer, 82, German chess player.
• Erling Gjone, 92, Norwegian architectural historian.
• Walter Hammersen, 79, German politician.
• Eric Huxtable, 81, Australian footballer.
• Naziruddin Jehad, 21, Bangladeshi democratic activist, shot.
• Dick Jorgensen, 56, American football official.
• Ziggy Marcell, 74, American baseball player.
• Jerónimo Mihura, 88, Spanish film director.
• Wally Moses, 80, American baseball player.
• Tom Murton, 62, American prison warden, cancer.
• Floyd R. Newman, 99, American oil businessman.
• Manahi Nitama Paewai, 70, New Zealand rugby player and missionary.
• Irene Mayer Selznick, 83, American theatrical producer.
• Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 51, American politician, cancer.
• Edward Szostak, 79, Polish basketball player.
• Carlos Thompson, 67, Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Josef Trousílek, 72, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
• René Urbany, 63, Luxembourgian politician and journalist.

11

• Ichio Asukata, 75, Japanese politician.
• Anatole Broyard, 70, American writer and journalist, prostate cancer.
• Walter Ames Compton, 79, American doctor and pharmacy researcher.
• George Corbett, 82, American football player.
• Jules Guéron, 83, French atomic scientist.
• Janez Janež, 77, Slovenian-Chinese surgeon.
• Günter Kuhnke, 78, German submarine commander.
• Paul Reilly, Baron Reilly, 78, British designer.
• Ken Spain, 44, American basketball player, cancer.
• Robert Tessier, 56, American actor, cancer.
• Adri van Male, 80, Dutch footballer.
• Joseph Whiteside, 84, English swimmer.

12

• Gordon A. Bubolz, 85, American politician.
• Rifaat el-Mahgoub, 64, Egyptian politician, shot.
• Leonard Krieger, 72, American historian.
• Mariya Kuznetsova, 72, Soviet fighter pilot.
• Leif Larsen, 84, Norwegian sailor.
• Rrahman Morina, 47, Yugoslav politician, heart attack.
• Tatsuo Nagai, 86, Japanese writer, heart attack.
• John O'Brien, 65, New Zealand politician.
• Frederick Rossini, 91, American thermodynamicist.
• Peter Wessel Zapffe, 90, Norwegian philosopher.

13

• Jim Collins, 94, Australian 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 rower.
• Lê Đức Thọ, 78, Vietnamese politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient (1973), cancer.
• Hans Namuth, 75, German-American photographer, traffic collision.

14

• Leonard Bernstein, 72, American conductor and composer (West Side Story), mesothelioma.
• Tom Brigance, 77, American fashion designer.
• Leon Brown, 71, American basketball player.
• Daniel Guilet, 91, French-American violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Betty Jumel, 89, British actress and comedian.
• Patrick Kilvington, 67, British-born Australian artist.
• Clifton Pugh, 65, Australian artist, heart attack.
• Ülo Raudmäe, 67, Soviet trombonist.
• Oscar Secco Ellauri, 86, Uruguayan politician.
• Carin Swensson, 85, Swedish actress.

15

• Tibor Berczelly, 78, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).
• Helen Bray, 100, American silent film actress.
• Jimmy Durrant, 77, South African pilot.
• 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 (1955–1974).
• Gwen Nelson, 89, English actress.
• Boris Piotrovsky, 82, Soviet archaeologist.
• Lloyd Rudge, 56, English cricketer.
• Ole Schwalbe, 61, Danish painter.
• Delphine Seyrig, 58, French actress, ovarian cancer.
• Om Shivpuri, 52, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Vital Van Landeghem, 77, Belgian footballer.
• Yu Pingbo, 90, Chinese literary critic.

16

• Art Blakey, 71, American drummer, lung cancer.
• Jorge Bolet, 75, Cuban-American pianist.
• Douglas Campbell, 94, American flying ace.
• Edwin R. Fissinger, 70, American composer.
• Mick Fluker, 64, Canadian politician.
• Dorothy M. Healy, 76, American historian.
• Berl Huffman, 83, American sports coach.
• Carl Just, 93, Norwegian journalist.
• Ambrose Palmer, 80, Australian footballer.
• Blake Pelly, 83, Australian politician.
• Roger Powell, 94, English bookbinder.
• Giovanni Varglien, 79, Italian footballer.
• James L. Wright, 65, American politician.
• 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.
• Seth Morgan, 41, American novelist, traffic collision.
• Jordan Olivar, 75, American football player.
• Tadashige Ono, 81, Japanese artist.
• Paul Seabury, 67, American political scientist.
• Larry Todd, 48, American football player.

18

• Alexander Barkan, 81, American trade unionist.
• Michael Bigg, 50, English-Canadian marine biologist, leukemia.
• Slim Brundage, 86, American political activist.
• Marie-France Dufour, 41, French singer, leukemia.
• Nick Etten, 77, American baseball player.
• Pyotr Fedoseev, 82, Soviet philosopher.
• Frederick Fraser, 94, Canadian politician.
• Sol Furth, 83, American Olympic jumper (1932).
• Josef Goubeau, 89, German chemist.
• Ben Hatskin, 73, Canadian ice hockey executive (Winnipeg Jets).
• Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 99, British scientific administrator (CERN).
• Harry Marker, 91, American film editor.
• Heinz Oskar Vetter, 72, German politician.
• Gordon Wright, 63, Canadian politician, pancreatic cancer.

19

• Zuzu Bollin, 68, American musician.
• David Chandler, 78, American writer.
• Jerry Cronin, 65, Irish politician, Parkinson's disease.
• Zenon C.R. Hansen, 81, American businessman, cancer.
• René Highway, 35, Canadian dancer, AIDS.
• Joseph Kasongo, 70, Congolese politician.
• Trudy Späth-Schweizer, 81, Swiss politician.
• Samuel Wilbert Tucker, 77, American lawyer.
• Lew Worsham, 73, American golfer.

20

• Colette Audry, 84, French writer.
• Reginald Bazire, 90, British Anglican priest.
• Antonio Bortoletti, 80, Italian footballer.
• Ron Boys, 66, Australian footballer.
• Maurice Coindreau, 97, French literary critic.
• Teresa de Francisci, 92, Italian-born American model.
• Juan "Papo" Franceschi, 43, Puerto Rican track and field athlete, shot.
• Freda Jackson, 82, English actress.
• Joel McCrea, 84, American actor, pneumonia.
• Kona Prabhakara Rao, 74, Indian politician, cardiopulmonary failure.
• Bridget Bate Tichenor, 72, British-Mexican artist.
• Charles J. Timmes, 83, American general.
• Adriaan Cornelis Valentin van Bemmel, 82, Dutch zoologist.

21

• Karl Egil Aubert, 66, Norwegian mathematician.
• Tom Carvel, 84, Greek-born American businessman.
• Dany Chamoun, 56, Lebanese politician, murdered.
• Eugen Haugland, 78, Norwegian triple jumper.
• Sao Hkun Hkio, 78, Burmese politician.
• Freddie Hooghiemstra, 59, Dutch field hockey player.
• Jo Ann Kelly, 46, English musician, brain cancer.
• Gildo Pastor, 80, Monegasque businessman.
• Brij Sadanah, 57, Indian filmmaker, suicide by gunshot.
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, 69, Indian composer and guru, heart attack.
• Athol Shmith, 76, Australian photographer.
• Ruth Stockton, 74, American politician.
• Frans Van den Bergh, 76, Belgian businessman.
• Frank Waddey, 85, American baseball player.

22

• Louis Althusser, 72, French philosopher, heart attack.
• Jack Doherty, 75, Australian footballer.
• Dorothy Goble, 80, Australian politician.
• Gerry Hickey, 78, Australian footballer.
• Carl Klinck, 82, Canadian literary historian.
• Kamil Lhoták, 78, Czechoslovak artist.
• Frank Sinkwich, 70, American football player.
• Arthur "Big Boy" Spires, 78, American blues musician.
• Alwar Sundell, 84, Finnish politician.

23

• Robert O. Ashbach, 74, American politician, complications from heart surgery.
• Norman Buchan, 67, British politician.
• Berthold Lubetkin, 88, Georgian-born British architect.
• Vera McGinnis, 97, American rodeo rider.
• Zephania Mothopeng, 77, South African political activist, lung cancer.
• Dave Murray, 37, Canadian skier, skin cancer.
• Tom Oswald, 86, British politician.
• Bob Scott, 95, Australian footballer.
• Thomas Williams, 63, American novelist, lung cancer.

24

• André Aumerle, 83, French cyclist.
• Jim Clark, 63, American baseball player.
• Sydney Halter, 85, Canadian lawyer and football administrator.
• Ivan Krevs, 77, Yugoslav Olympic runner (1936).
• Derek Leaver, 61, British chemist.
• John Sex, 34, American singer, AIDS.
• Richard Tyler, 62, American sound engineer.
• Dixie B. White, 73, American football coach.
• Yoshiko Yuasa, 93, Japanese translator and Russian scholar.

25

• Ed Bagdon, 64, American football player.
• Max Biggs, 67, American basketball player.
• Leif Børresen, 81, Norwegian footballer.
• C. W. Dugmore, 81, British church historian.
• Wyndham Hill-Smith, 81, Australian cricketer and winemaker.
• Major Holley, 66, American bassist, heart attack.
• Zara Mints, 63, Soviet literary scientist.
• Bennie Oosterbaan, 84, American football player.
• Costa Pereira, 60, Portuguese footballer.
• Ruth Reese, 69, American-Norwegian singer and civil rights activist.
• Ikey Robinson, 86, American banjoist.
• Williamson A. Sangma, 71, Indian politician.
• Heber Smith, 75, Canadian politician.

26

• Lawrence Andreasen, 44, American diver, accidental fall.
• Robert Antelme, 73, French writer.
• Joan Brown, 52, American painter, blunt force trauma.
• Arne Dagfin Dahl, 96, Norwegian soldier.
• Ödön Lendvay, 47, Hungarian basketball player.
• Gordon W. McKay, 80, American politician.
• Breandán Ó hEithir, 60, Irish writer and broadcaster.
• William S. Paley, 89, American television executive, kidney failure.
• Catharine Rembert, 85, American artist.
• 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-born Mexican actor.
• Dudley Bragg, 73, Australian footballer.
• Xavier Cugat, 90, Spanish musician, heart failure.
• Bob Davie, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jacques Demy, 59, French film director and lyricist, AIDS.
• Go For Wand, 3, American Thoroughbred racehorse, racing injury.
• Wacław Kowalski, 74, Polish actor.
• Leo O'Halloran, 65, Australian footballer.
• Garvin Mugg, 69, American football player.
• Elliott Roosevelt, 80, American general and politician, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, heart failure.
• Woodrow Bradley Seals, 72, American judge.
• Ugo Tognazzi, 68, Italian actor and filmmaker, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Béla Volentik, 82, Hungarian footballer.

28

• Aleksandra Chudina, 66, Soviet athlete, stomach cancer.
• Victor Danner, 64, Mexican-born American Islamic studier.
• Gervasio, 42, Uruguayan singer, suicide by hanging.
• Ernst Rudolf Huber, 87, German jurist.
• Frankie Masters, 86, American bandleader.
• Kolau Nadiradze, 95, Soviet poet.
• Geminio Ognio, 72, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).
• J. L. Womersley, 80, British architect.

29

• Aleksey Alelyukhin, 70, Soviet flying ace.
• Joseph Attles, 87, American actor.
• Herbert Brodkin, 77, American producer.
• Volker von Collande, 76, German actor and filmmaker.
• James B. Kring, 69, American entomologist.
• Albert Andreas Mørkved, 92, Norwegian politician.
• William Arnold Newton, 25, American pornographic actor and producer, murdered.
• Emrys Roberts, 80, Welsh politician.
• William French Smith, 73, American lawyer, attorney general (1981–1985), cancer.
• Juha Vainio, 52, Finnish musician, heart attack.

30

• Wim Gijsen, 57, Dutch author.
• Willy Jürissen, 78, German footballer.
• Kwok Tak-seng, 79, Hong Kong businessman, heart attack.
• Harry Lauter, 76, American actor, heart attack.
• Vinod Mehra, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Yone Moriyama, 99, Japanese politician.
• James Gamble Rogers II, 89, American architect.
• Craig Russell, 42, Canadian drag queen and actor, AIDS.
• V. Shantaram, 88, Indian actor and filmmaker.
• Tom Steele, 81, American stuntman.
• Germaine Van Dievoet, 91, Belgian swimmer.

31

• Carl Belew, 59, American country musician, cancer.
• Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, 84, British diplomat.
• Bert Cadieu, 87, Canadian politician.
• Vasco de Carvalho, 88, Brazilian Olympic rower (1932).
• Jim Foster, 55, American LGBT activist, AIDS.
• John G. Frayne, 96, Irish-born American sound engineer.
• William M. Gibbons, 71, American lawyer.
• Ukko Hietala, 86, Finnish Olympic pentathlete (1936).
• John Hobbs, 66-67, British-Australian ornithologist.
• Aya Kōda, 86, Japanese novelist.
• Hugh McPhillips, 70, American actor and television director, complications from a traffic collision.
• Ivan Porter, 72, Australian footballer.
• Roger Price, 72, American humorist and author.
• Carmine Saponetti, 77, Italian racing cyclist.
• Alfred Sauvy, 92, French demographer.
• Marian Siejkowski, 50, Polish rower.
• M. L. Vasanthakumari, 62, Indian singer, cancer.