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 John Stewart Bell, 62, Northern Irish physicist, cerebral haemorrhage. June Emerson, 66, Canadian baseball player. Edmund Irving, 80, British hydrographer. Jean Flammang, 85, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1924). Andrzej Krzanowski, 39, Polish composer. Augustin Laurent, 94, French politician. Curtis LeMay, 83, American general, heart attack. Russell Thacher, 71, American film producer (Soylent Green), complications from surgery. Tommy Thompson, 63, American football player (Cleveland Browns), cancer.

2 Peter Herman Adler, 90, Austrian-born American conductor. Xosé María Díaz Castro, 76, Galician poet and translator. John Groff, 100, American general, heart attack. Jaime Mendes, 77, Portuguese Olympic long distance-runner (1936). Loni Nest, 75, German actress. Karl Neumeister, 87, Austrian Olympic equestrian (1936). Isolina Rondón, 77, Puerto Rican nationalist. Fred Rwigyema, 33, Rwandan soldier, shot. Heinie Schuble, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Lions). Mercedes Simone, 86, Argentinian singer and actress. Norbert Vesak, 53, Canadian choreographer, brain aneurysm.

3 Winslow Ames, 83, American art historian, heart attack. Amy Bailey, 94, Jamaican civil rights activist. Charlotte Boyle, 91, American Olympic swimmer (1920). Stefano Casiraghi, 30, Italian powerboat racer, boating accident. Res Jost, 72, Swiss theoretical physicist. Ellis Pringle, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Americans). Eleanor Steber, 76, American opera singer, complications from heart surgery. Bill White, 73, Australian rules footballer.

4 Alyn Ainsworth, 66, British musician. Jill Bennett, 63, English actress, drug overdose. Avis Bunnage, 67, English actress. Erwin Bünning, 84, German biologist, Alzheimer's disease. Luciano Catenacci, 57, Italian actor. Roy Charman, 60, English sound engineer. Jacques de Mahieu, 74, French-Argentine anthropologist and peronist. Vance Dinges, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). George Gordon, 88, Australian rules footballer. Sergey Lapin, 78, Soviet diplomat. František Nekolný, 82, Czechoslovak Olympic boxer (1928). Waldemar Philippi, 61, German footballer. Ray Stephens, 35, American singer (Village People) and actor (The Great Space Coaster), AIDS. Peter Taylor, 62, English football player, lung disease.

5 Félix Dafauce, 93, Spanish actor. Marvin Gelber, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1963-1965). André Grabar, 94, Ukrainian-American art historian. Dixie Howell, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers). Yoshio Kondo, 80, American Biologist and malacologist. J. Murray Mitchell, 62, American climatologist. Ernesto Parga, 54, Argentine Olympic water polo player (1960). Roberto Soundy, 90, Salvadorian Olympic sports shooter (1968). Sam Taylor, 74, American saxophonist. Đorđe Vujadinović, 80, Yugoslav football player. Jan Hendrik Waszink, 81, Dutch Latin scholar.

6 Märta Dorff, 81, Swedish film actress. Asser Fagerström, 78, Finnish pianist, composer and actor. James E. Newcom, 85, American film editor. Danny Rodriguez, 22, American Christian rapper, shot. Richard P. Ross Jr., 84, American general. Dick Starzyk, 69, American basketball player. Henryk Vogelfanger, 86, Polish actor. Bahriye Üçok, 70-71, Turkish politician and journalist, assassinated.

7 Chiara Badano, 18, Italian Catholic activist, osteosarcoma, bone cancer. Bellarmino Bagatti, 84, Italian archaeologist. Darrel Brown, 67, American basketball player. Beatrice Hutton, 97, Australian architect. Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, 78, Emirati politician, prime minister (since 1979). Scott M. Matheson, 61, American politician, governor of Utah (1977–1985), multiple myeloma. Grim Natwick, 100, American animator (Fleischer Studios), pneumonia. Manuel Ramos Otero, 42, Puerto Rican writer, AIDS. Walt Ripley, 73, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).

8 Juan José Arévalo, 86, Guatemalan politician, president (1945–1951). Frank Cope, 74, American football player. 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. Kamalapati Tripathi, 85, Indian politician. Eric Wennström, 81, Swedish Olympic hurdler (1928). 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). Georges de Rham, 87, Swiss mathematician. Dessie Grew, 37, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot. Markku Hakulinen, 34, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player (1980), suicide by train collision. 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. Lars Thörn, 86, Swedish Olympic sailor (1956, 1964).

10 George Barnicle, 73, American MLB player (Boston Bees/Braves). Kenneth Cross, 74, British physiologist. Emil Josef Diemer, 82, German chess player. Walter Hammersen, 79, German politician. Eric Huxtable, 81, Australian rules footballer. Dick Jorgensen, 56, American football official, cancer. Ziggy Marcell, 74, American baseball and basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters). Irene Mayer Selznick, 83, American theatrical producer, breast cancer. Jerónimo Mihura, 88, Spanish film director. Wally Moses, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox). Tom Murton, 62, American prison warden, cancer. Floyd R. Newman, 100, American oil businessman. Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 51, American politician, cancer. Edward Szostak, 79, Polish Olympic basketball player (1936). Carlos Thompson, 67, Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot. Josef Trousílek, 72, Czechoslovak Olmypic ice hockey player (1948).

11 Ichio Asukata, 75, Japanese politician. Anatole Broyard, 70, American writer and journalist, prostate cancer. George Corbett, 82, American football player (Chicago Bears). Günter Kuhnke, 78, German submarine commander. Ken Spain, 44, American basketball player (Pittsburgh Condors) and Olympian (1968), cancer. Robert Tessier, 56, American actor, cancer. Adri van Male, 80, Dutch footballer. Joseph Whiteside, 84, English Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932).

12 Rifaat el-Mahgoub, 64, Egyptian politician, shot. Leonard Krieger, 72, American historian. Leif Larsen, 84, Norwegian sailor and war hero. Rahman Morina, 47, Yugoslav politician, heart attack. John O'Brien, 65, New Zealand politician. Frederick Rossini, 91, American thermodynamicist. Bridget Bate Tichenor, 72, British surrealist painter and fashion editor. Peter Wessel Zapffe, 90, Norwegian philosopher.

13 Jim Collins, 94, Australian rules footballer. Lino Donoso, 68, Cuban baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). Douglas Edwards, 73, American newscaster, bladder cancer. Hans Freudenthal, 85, German-born Dutch mathematician. Mario Guerci, 77, Argentine Olympic rower (1948). Le Duc Tho, 78, Vietnamese politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient (1973), cancer. Hans Namuth, 75, German-American photographer, traffic collision. Lewis Veraldi, 60, American automotive engineer, heart attack.

14 Leonard Bernstein, 72, American conductor and composer (West Side Story), pneumonia. Tom Brigance, 77, American fashion designer. Leon Brown, 71, American basketball player. Daniel Guilet, 91, French-American violinist, cerebral hemorrhage. Irina Odoyevtseva, 95, Russian poet, novelist and memoirist. Clifton Pugh, 65, Australian artist, heart attack. Carin Swensson, 85, Swedish actress.

15 Tibor Berczelly, 78, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952). Helen Bray, 100, American silent film actress. Sam Dolgoff, 88, Russian-American anarchist. 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. Yu Pingbo, 90, Chinese literary critic. Boris Piotrovsky, 82, Soviet archaeologist. Delphine Seyrig, 58, French actress, ovarian cancer. Om Shivpuri, 52, Indian actor, heart attack. Vital Van Landeghem, 77, Belgian football player. Ramkumar Verma, 85, Hindi poet.

16 Art Blakey, 71, American drummer, lung cancer. Jorge Bolet, 75, Cuban-American pianist, AIDS-related complications. Douglas Campbell, 94, American flying ace during World War I. Dorothy M. Healy, 76, American historian. Berl Huffman, 83, American sports coach. Carl Just, 93, Norwegian journalist. Ambrose Palmer, 80, Australian rules footballer. Blake Pelly, 83, Australian politician and businessman. Roger Powell, 94, English bookbinder. Giovanni Varglien, 79, Italian footballer. Alexander Zakin, 87, Russian-American pianist, heart failure.

17 Ralph Bowman, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Eagles, Detroit Red Wings). Denis Cordner, 66, Australian footballer. Harry Fletcher, 80, Australian politician. Emil Görlitz, 87, Polish footballer and Olympian (1924). Seth Morgan, 41, American novelist, traffic collision. Jordan Olivar, 75, American football player, cancer. Tadashige Ono, 81, Japanese artist. Paul Seabury, 67, American political scientist, kidney failure.

18 Michael Bigg, 50, English-Canadian marine biologist, leukemia. Marie-France Dufour, 41, French singer, leukemia. Nick Etten, 77, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees). Pyotr Fedoseyev, 82, Soviet philosopher. Sol Furth, 83, American Olympic jumper (1932). Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 99, British scientific administrator (CERN). Harry Marker, 91, American film editor. Heinz Oskar Vetter, 72, German politician.

19 Jerry Cronin, 65, Irish politician, Parkinson's disease. Haim Gvati, 89, Israeli zionist activist and politician. René Highway, 35, Canadian dancer, AIDS. Augusto Tiezzi, 80, Italian cinematographer. Samuel Wilbert Tucker, 77, American lawyer. Lew Worsham, 73, American golfer.

20 Colette Audry, 84, French writer. Américo Hoss, 76, Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer. Freda Jackson, 82, English actress. Alma Theodora Lee, 78, Australian botanist and plant taxonomist. Joel McCrea, 84, American actor, pneumonia. Kona Prabhakara Rao, 74, Indian politician, cardiopulmonary failure.

21 Karl Egil Aubert, 66, Norwegian mathematician. Tom Carvel, 84, Greek-American businessman. Dany Chamoun, 56, Lebanese politician, murdered. Eugen Haugland, 78, Norwegian triple jumper and Olympian (1936). Freddie Hooghiemstra, 59, Dutch Olympic field hockey player (1960). Jo Ann Kelly, 46, English musician, brain cancer. Lotar Olias, 76, German composer. Brij Sadanah, 57, Indian filmmaker, suicide by gunshot. Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, 69, Indian composer and guru, heart attack. Athol Shmith, 76, Australian photographer. Ruth Stockton, 74, American politician. Frank Waddey, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).

22 Louis Althusser, 72, French philosopher, heart attack. Jack Doherty, 75, Australian rules footballer. Gerry Hickey, 78, Australian rules footballer. Kamil Lhoták, 78, Czechoslovak artist. Nikolay Rybnikov, 59, Soviet and Russian film actor, heart attack. Frank Sinkwich, 70, American football player, Heisman Trophy recipient.

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