Deaths in March 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1990

1 Desmond Brain, 80, Australian cricketer. Max Bulla, 84, Austrian racing cyclist. Frank Crespi, 72, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). Ben Hill Griffin, Jr., 79, American businessman and politician. Dainin Katagiri, 62, Japanese-American Zen master, cancer. Frederick Landis Jr., 78, American judge.

2 Arthur Fleischmann, 93, Czech-British sculptor. Shakey Jake Harris, 68, American musician. Reg Saunders, 69, Aboriginal Australian Army officer. Shin Shalom, 85, Israeli writer.

3 Roberto Bertol, 72, Spanish football player. Gérard Blitz, 78, Belgian entrepreneur. William D. Dunham, 70, American general and flying ace during World War II. Frans Goedhart, 86, Dutch politician and journalist. Risto Mattila, 80, Finnish Olympic sprinter (1928). David Nolting, 85, Argentine Olympic rower (1924). Louis Page, 84, French cinematographer. Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 91, American astronomer, heart failure. Lockie Wood, 85, Australian rules footballer.

4 Abraham Bernstein, 71, American politician. Hank Gathers, 23, American basketball player, ventricular tachycardia. Konstantin Konstantinovich Kokkinaki, 79, Soviet fighter and test pilot. Vasily Margelov, 81, Soviet general. Frank McGrath, 85, American football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets). Heinz Schnackertz, 78, German cinematographer. Harry Worthington, 98, American Olympic track and field athlete (1912).

5 Albano, 67, Portuguese footballer. Stanley Barnes, 89, American college football player and circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). Edmund Conen, 75, German football player. Mala, 47, Pakistani singer. Timothy Mason, 50, English marxist historian of Nazi Germany, suicide. Gary Merrill, 74, American actor (All About Eve), lung cancer. Hans Christian Nielsen, 61, Danish Olympic footballer (1960). Gina Pane, 50, French artist. Gloria Carter Spann, 63, American motorcyclist, sister of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer. Peter Adolf Thiessen, 90, German chemist. Karel Thijs, 71, Belgian racing cyclist. William Appleman Williams, 68, American historian.

6 Mario Aguilar, 64, Salvadorian Olympic sailor (1968). Friedrich Hielscher, 87, German theologian. Taro Kagawa, 67, Japanese footballer. E. T. Klassen, 81, United States Postmaster General. Egill Knutzen, 75, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952). Adam Papée, 94, Polish fencer and Olympic medalist (1924, 1928, 1932, 1936). William Raborn, 84, American intelligence officer, Director of Central Intelligence (1965–1966). Joe Sewell, 91, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees). Julian Spence, 60, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Houston Oilers). Earl T. Wagner, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).

7 Claude Arrieu, 86, French composer. Shuddhananda Bharati, 92, Indian religious philosopher. Shenork I Kaloustian, 76, Soviet Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (since 1963). Pancho Córdova, 73, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director. Çetin Emeç, 54–55, Turkish journalist, shot. Ruth Glass, 77, German-British sociologist and urban planner. Mordecai Gorelik, 90, Russian-American theatrical designer, cancer. Atanasia Ionescu, 54, Romanian gymnast and Olympian (1960, 1964). Jay Lovestone, 92, Russian-American political activist. Luís Carlos Prestes, 92, Brazilian politician, heart attack. Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 89, South African politician. Salvatore Tripoli, 85, American boxer and Olympic medalist (1924). Mihály Tóth, 63, Hungarian football player. Carl A. Wirtanen, 79, American astronomer.

8 Erkki Aaltonen, 79, Finnish composer. Erich Hohagen, 75, German general and flying ace during World War II. Karin Kavli, 83, Swedish actress. Charles Krüger, 93, Luxembourgish Olympic football player (1920). Jack Lindsay, 89, Australian-British writer. Lou Possner, 72, American basketball player. John Ben Shepperd, 74, American politician, cancer. Hein van Breenen, 60, Dutch racing cyclist.

9 Georgios Costakis, 76, Soviet collector of Russian art. Abraham Solomon Halkin, 86, Russian-American-Israeli historian, pneumonia. Giorgos Joannides, 67, Greek-born American intelligence officer. Martial Singher, 85, French opera singer. Isao Sato, 40, Japanese theater actor, plane crash. Lou Vedder, 92, American baseball and football player (Detroit Tigers).

10 Tseng Kwong Chi, 39, Hong Kong-American photographer, AIDS. B. R. Deodhar, 88, Indian singer. Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, 83, British politician. Pat McDonald, 68, Australian actress, pancreatic cancer. Giovanni Paganin, 34, Italian Olympic speed skater (1980). Harro Ran, 52, Dutch Olympic water polo player (1960, 1964) Otto Schuhart, 80, German U-boat commander during War II. Darbara Singh, 74, Indian politician. Lance Tingay, 74, British sports journalist, heart attack. Reg Wright, 84, Australian politician.

11 Dan Archibong, 46, Nigerian soldier and politician, traffic collision. Muriel Dickson, 86, Scottish soprano. Cornelis Dusseldorp, 81, Dutch Olympic rower (1928). Pratul Chandra Gupta, 80, Indian historian. Dean Horrix, 28, English footballer, traffic collision. Håkon Kindervåg, 67, Norwegian footballer. Edward Partin, 66, American trade unionist. Oronzo Pugliese, 79, Italian football manager. Roy Schalk, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox).

12 Bruce Barnes, 80, American tennis player. Rie de Balbian Verster-Bolderheij, 100, Dutch painter. Wallace Breem, 63, British author. Lamberto Cesari, 79, Italian-American mathematician. Jane Grigson, 61, English cookbook writer, cervical cancer. Eugene V. Klein, 69, American businessman. Rick Lackman, 79, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Rosamond Lehmann, 89, English novelist. Walter Orr Roberts, 74, American atmospheric scientist and astronomer, cancer. Alf Sherwood, 66, Welsh footballer, heart attack. Philippe Soupault, 92, French writer. Harry South, 60, English musician.

13 Bruno Bettelheim, 86, Austrian-American psychologist, suicide by asphyxiation. Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley, 70, British hereditary peer. Albert De Cleyn, 72, Belgian football player. Ernst Goldenbaum, 91, German politician. Johan Heijm, 85, Dutch Olympic wrestler (1928). Graham Martin, 77, American diplomat. Karl Münchinger, 74, German conductor. Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova, 85, Russian-British anthropologist. Gottfried Weimann, 82, German Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).

14 Robert H. Bahmer, 85, American archivist. Wilhelm Baumann, 77, German Olympic handball player (1936). Pete Close, 52, American Olympic runner (1960). Richard Cooper, 44, English cricketer. Harold Medina, 102, American judge. Yuri Sokolov, 29, Soviet Olympic judoka (1988) and criminal, killed. Aubrey Wisberg, 80, British-American filmmaker, cancer.

15 Farzad Bazoft, 31, Iranian-British journalist and alleged spy, execution by hanging. José Antonio Bottiroli, 70, Argentine composer. Jim Ede, 94, British art collector. Loleta Fyan, 95, American librarian. Tom Harmon, 70, American football player. Mykola Makhynia, 77, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach. Angus Scott, 62, British Olympic athlete (1952). Mike Witteck, 26, American football player (New York Jets).

16 Ernst Bacon, 91, American composer. Harry Oliver Bradley, 60, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1963). Wolfgang Clemen, 81, German literary scholar. Fritz Ewert, 53, German footballer. Barry French, 68, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions). James Frank Gilliam, 75, American classical scholar.

17 Capucine, 62, French model and actress (The Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?), suicide by jumping. Samuel H. Friedman, 93, American journalist and labor union activist, pneumonia. Ric Grech, 43, British musician, liver failure. Nanette Guilford, 86, American opera singer, gastroenteritis. Mohamed Latif, 80, Egyptian football player and Olympian (1936). Jack Noren, 60, American drummer. Rose Marie Pangborn, 57–58, American food scientist, cancer. Carmelo Samonà, 64, Italian academic.

18 Robin Harris, 36, American comedian and actor (House Party, Do the Right Thing, Harlem Nights), heart attack. Bob Katter, Sr., 71, Australian politician. Charles Phelps Smyth, 95, American chemist. Eileen Soper, 84, English artist. Zacarias, 56, Brazilian actor.

19 Oyinkan Abayomi, 93, Nigerian activist. Tiny Brauer, 80, American actor. James H. R. Cromwell, 93, American diplomat. Wilhelm Flügge, 86, German engineer. Weldon Gentry, 83, American football player (Providence Steamrollers). Leopold Neumer, 71, Austrian football player. Oulaya, 53, Tunisian singer and actress. Andrew Wood, 24, American singer, heroin overdose.

20 Jason Boe, 61, American politician. Maurice Cloche, 82, French filmmaker, Parkinson's disease. Edward Deir, 75, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1936). Sir Kenneth Mather, 78, British geneticist, heart attack. Wilhelm Neef, 74, German conductor. Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, 79, British banker and intelligence officer. Lev Yashin, 60, Soviet footballer and Olympian (1956), stomach cancer.

21 Sahiuddin Bishwas, 67, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and politician. Dessie Cullinane, 70, Irish footballer. Ottorino Mancioli, 81, Italian painter. Bruce McGregor, 87, Australian rules footballer. Allan Roberts, 46, British politician, cancer. Edward Wojda, 48, Polish wrestler and Olympian (1968, 1972). Rayburn Wright, 67, American trombonist, composer, and conductor, cancer.

22 Dave Arrell, 76, Australian rules footballer. Gerald Bull, 62, Canadian military engineer, shot. Maurice Fleuret, 57, French composer. Eivind Holmsen, 95, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter (1924). Robert Karplus, 63, Austrian-American theoretical physicist. Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, 33, Colombian communist politician, homicide. Geoffrey Ostergaard, 63, British political scientist, leukemia. Cornelius A. Pickett, 87, American politician.

23 John Dexter, 64, English theatre director. René Enríquez, 56, Nicaraguan-American actor, AIDS. Margaret Holgerson, 63, American baseball player. John Jardine, 54, American gridiron football player, heart condition. Al Sears, 80, American saxophonist. Leongino Unzaim, 64, Paraguayan football player.

24 Ray Goulding, 68, American comedian, kidney failure. Jennie Lee, 61, American stripteaser, cancer. John Louis Morkovsky, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, stroke. Alice Sapritch, 73, French actress, cancer. An Wang, 70, Chinese-American computer engineer, cancer.

25 Len Astill, 73, English footballer. Karl Brown, 93, American filmmaker. George Clayden, 86, Australian footballer. Carl Emmermann, 75, German U-boat commander during World War II. David Evans, 56, English cricket player. Jean Hauet, 65, French Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952). Bertil Linde, 83, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist (1928). Charles Lucet, 79, French diplomat. A. D. Williams, 56, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings).

26 Chet Brewer, 83, American baseball player. Tris Coffin, 80, American actor, lung cancer. Halston, 57, American fashion designer, AIDS. Brūno Kalniņš, 90, Russian-Swedish politician. Michel Mirowski, 65, Polish-born American physician, multiple myeloma. Maniben Patel, 86, Indian independence activist and politician. Alan Solem, 58, American malacologist.

27 Percy Beard, 82, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (1932). Václav Bubník, 64, Czechoslovak Olympic ice hockey player (1952, 1956). Marilyn Buferd, 65, American actress, pancreatic cancer.