# Deaths in May 1990
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

## May 1990
### 1

* Fred Blackburn, 87, British politician.
* Sunset Carson, 69, American actor.
* Heciyê Cindî, 82, Kurdish linguist and researcher from Armenia.
* Djalma Dias, 50, Brazilian footballer, cardiopulmonary arrest.
* Sergio Franchi, 64, Italian-American singer and actor, brain cancer.
* Lothar Geitler, 90, Austrian botanist.
* Oskar Kuhn, 82, German palaeontologist.
* Rab Bruce Lockhart, 73, Scottish rugby player and academic.
* Jindřich Maudr, 84, Czechoslovak wrestler.
* Frits Warmolt Went, 86, Dutch-American biologist.

### 2

* Germain Bazin, 88, French art historian.
* Ronald Berndt, 73, Australian anthropologist.
* Ann Casson, 74, English actress.
* William L. Dawson, 90, American composer.
* David Rappaport, 38, English actor, suicide by gunshot.

### 3

* Carlos Cerutti, 21, Argentine basketball player, traffic collision.
* Dovima, 62, American supermodel, liver cancer.
* Audrey Ferris, 80, American actress.
* Mathilda Guez, 71, French Tunisian-Israeli politician.
* Karl Ibach, 75, German politician.
* Shōtarō Ikenami, 67, Japanese author, leukemia.
* Pimen I of Moscow, 79, Soviet patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (since 1970).
* Mary Lea Johnson Richards, 63, American theatre producer, liver cancer.

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* Luther Clifford, 66, American baseball player.
* John Ormond, 67, Welsh poet.
* Emily Remler, 32, American guitarist, heart failure.
* Shepard Stone, 82, American journalist.
* Johnny Wright, 73, American baseball player.

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* Endre Bohem, 89, Hungarian-American filmmaker.
* Walter Bruch, 82, German electrical engineer and television pioneer.
* Reginald Goodall, 88, English conductor.
* Jean Keller, 84, French Olympic runner (1924, 1928, 1932).
* Elton Rule, 72, American television executive (American Broadcasting Company).

### 6

* Charles Farrell, 89, American actor, heart failure.
* Lotte Jacobi, 93, Prussian-American photographer.
* Irmtraud Morgner, 56, German writer, cancer.
* Eduardo Nicol, 83, Mexican-Catalan philosopher.

### 7

* Ann Bishop, 90, English biologist, pneumonia.
* Elizete Cardoso, 69, Brazilian singer and actress, cancer.
* Ashley Lawrence, 55, New Zealand conductor.
* Nicholas Sanduleak, 56, American astronomer, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
* Sam Tambimuttu, 58, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician.
* Charlie Walker, 78, English football player.
* Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, 60, Yugoslav royal, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

### 8

* Tomás Ó Fiaich, 66, Irish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.
* June James, 27, American football player, traffic collision.
* Luigi Nono, 66, Italian composer.
* Edsard Schlingemann, 23, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1984), traffic collision.
* Rudolf Sellner, 84, German actor.

### 9

* Lü Wei (diver), 23–24, Chinese diver, murdered.
* Pauline Frederick, 82, American journalist, heart attack.
* David Stuart Parker, 71, American territorial administrator, heart failure.
* Patrick Piggott, 75, English composer.
* Misha Raitzin, 59–60, Soviet-Israeli-American singer, lung aneurysm.
* George Kennedy Young, 79, British politician.

### 10

* Hilda Buck, 75, New Zealand cricket player.
* Walter Mahan, 87, American football player.
* Susan Oliver, 58, American actress and aviator, colorectal cancer.
* Walker Percy, 73, American philosophical writer, prostate cancer.

### 11

* Stratos Dionysiou, 54, Greek singer, aortic aneurysm.
* Heidemarie Hatheyer, 78, Austrian actress.
* Winford Stokes, 39, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* David Wade, 78, American general.
* Harry Whittle, 68, British hurdler and Olympian.
* Hanne Wieder, 65, German actress, cancer.
* Venedikt Yerofeyev, 51, Soviet writer and dissident, throat cancer.

### 12

* Bill Bufalino, 72, American Mafia lawyer, leukemia.
* John E. Davis, 77, American politician, governor of North Dakota (1957–1961).
* Andrei Kirilenko, 83, Soviet statesman and politician.
* Nate Monaster, 78, American scriptwriter.
* Anthony Masters, 70, British production designer and set decorator.
* Earl Seibert, 79, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.

### 13

* Jorge Garate, 72, Argentine film editor.
* Albert Hendrickx, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Ray Jennison, 80, American football player.
* Hans Raff, 79, German Olympic runner (1936).

### 14

* André Amellér, 78, French composer.
* Gerald T. Flynn, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1961).
* Tarcisio Longoni, 76, Italian politician.
* Ruth Mason, 76, New Zealand botanist.
* Mary Oppen, 81, American poet, ovarian cancer.
* Bill Pace, 58, American football player.
* Ned Pines, 84, American publisher.
* Franklyn Seales, 37, American actor, AIDS.

### 15

* Jerzy Drzewiecki, 87, Polish airplane engineer.
* Peter Grimwade, 47, British television director and screenwriter, leukemia.
* Anna Schchian, 84, Soviet botanist.
* Yves Van Massenhove, 81, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Doug Young, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 16

* Luis Aldás, 80, Argentine actor.
* Rein Aren, 62, Soviet actor.
* Fernando Claudín, 74, Spanish historian.
* Sammy Davis Jr., 64, American singer ("The Candy Man") and actor (Ocean's 11), throat cancer.
* Robert Gall, 71, French lyricist.
* Jim Henson, 53, American puppeteer (The Muppets) and film director (Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal), toxic shock syndrome.
* Eduardo Mateo, 49, Uruguayan singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer.
* Pretzel Pezzullo, 79, American baseball player, cancer.
* Alija Sirotanović, 75, Yugoslav udarnik.

### 17

* Manuel Anatol, 87, French footballer.
* Rudolf Breuss, 91, Austrian naturopath and pseudoscientific diet advocate.
* Auguste Jordan, 81, French footballer.
* Jimmy Lawrence, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Detlev Peukert, 39, German historian, AIDS.
* Carlos Riquelme, 76, Mexican actor.
* Jackie Stewart, 68, Scottish footballer.
* Frank Wright, 54, American jazz musician.

### 18

* Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn, 69, Vietnamese Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Jill Ireland, 54, English actress and singer, breast cancer.
* Lorna Johnstone, 87, English equestrian.
* Karl Meyer, 90, German-American biochemist.
* Rafael Hernández Ochoa, 74, Mexican politician.
* Dalton Prejean, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
* Yannis Spyropoulos, 78, Greek painter.
* Eje Thelin, 51, Swedish trombonist.

### 19

* Jim Balfour, 75, Australian politician.
* Olive Byrne, 86, American writer.
* Hector Dyer, 79, American runner and Olympic champion.
* Hermann Wulf, 74, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.

### 20

* Bina Mossman, 97, American musician and politician.
* Peter Rabe, 68, German-American author, lung cancer.
* Aage Rubæk-Nielsen, 76, Danish equestrian and Olympian.
* Franklin Williams, 72, American diplomat.

### 21

* Mrs. Victor Bruce, 94, British racer.
* Morris Levy, 62, American record executive, cancer.
* Ed Steitz, 69, American basketball coach.
* Lily von Essen, 93, Swedish tennis player.
* Max Wall, 82, English actor and comedian, fall.

### 22

* Rocky Graziano, 71, American boxer, cardiopulmonary failure.
* Pat Reid, 79, British historian and soldier.
* Ling Shuhua, 90, Chinese modernist writer and painter.
* Leslie Spriggs, 80, British politician.

### 23

* Affandi, 83, Indonesian artist.
* Charlie Keller, 73, American baseball player.
* Elliott Lewis, 72, American actor.
* Giuseppe Santomaso, 82, Italian painter and educator.
* Ted Tinling, 79, British-American fashion designer.

### 24

* Jeanne de Salzmann, 101, French-Swiss choreographer.
* Augie Donatelli, 75, American baseball umpire.
* K. S. Hegde, 80, Indian politician and judge.
* John Kendall-Carpenter, 64, English rugby player.
* Jacques Lob, 57, French comic book artist.
* Dries van der Lof, 70, Dutch racing driver.
* Julijans Vaivods, 94, Soviet Roman Catholic cardinal.

### 25

* D. S. Amalorpavadass, 57, Indian theologian.
* Athanasios Asimakopulos, 59, Canadian economist, leukemia.
* Ray Atkeson, 83, American photographer.
* Hans-Werner Kraus, 74, German U-boat commander during World War II.
* William Overgard, 64, American cartoonist.
* Vic Tayback, 60, American actor (Alice), heart attack.
* Gary Usher, 51, American musician, lung cancer.

### 26

* Marguerite S. Church, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1963).
* René David, 64, French legal scholar.
* Brūno Kalniņš, 91, Latvian politician and historian.
* Emil Konopinski, 78, American nuclear scientist.
* Don McFadyen, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Chris McGregor, 53, South African musician, lung cancer.
* Varlen Pen, 73, Soviet Russian-Korean painter and graphic artist.
* Nicole Riche, 64, French actress.

### 27

* Heino Dissing, 77, Danish racing cyclist.
* Adele Duttweiler-Bertschi, 97, Swiss philanthropist.
* Emil Handschin, 62, Swiss ice hockey player.
* Pyotr Lomako, 85, Soviet politician.
* Jessie MacWilliams, 73, English mathematician.
* Robert Baumle Meyner, 81, American politician, governor of New Jersey (1954–1962).
* Mieko Takamine, 71, Japanese actress and singer.

### 28

* Ralph Alger Bagnold, 94, English geologist.
* Bill Davies, 74, Canadian football player.
* Julius Eastman, 49, American musician, cardiac arrest.
* Inna Gulaya, 50, Soviet actress, drug overdose.
* Giorgio Manganelli, 67, Italian writer.
* Taiichi Ohno, 78, Japanese industrialist (Toyota Production System).
* Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 90, German industrial designer and engineer.

### 29

* Yves Brayer, 82, French painter.
* Jimmy Creighton, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Parkinson's disease.
* Bill MacKenzie, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Albert Spaulding, 75, American anthropologist.
* Alexander Tsvetkov, 75, Bulgarian chess player.

### 30

* Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere, 92, British academic.
* John Francis Hackett, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Ole Scavenius Jensen, 69, Danish Olympic rower (1952).
* Wilderich Freiherr Ostman von der Leye, 66, German politician.
* José Solís, 76, Spanish politician.

### 31

* Clotario Blest, 90, Chilean unionist.
* Jerzy Kaliszewski, 77, Polish actor.
* Art Lund, 75, American singer.
* Michael Raffetto, 90, American actor, throat cancer.
* Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., 72, American CIA agent and writer, heart failure.
* Charlie Shoemaker, 50, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
* Willy Spühler, 88, Swiss politician.