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

## January 1990
### 1

* Arundhati Devi, 66, Indian actress, director, and singer.
* Carmen Hill, 94, American baseball player.
* Joe Hardstaff Jr, 78, English cricket player.
* Patrick Kelly, 35, American fashion designer, AIDS.
* Ernst Kuzorra, 84, German football player.
* Niyazi Sel, 81, Turkish footballer.
* T. B. Simatupang, 69, Indonesian National Armed Forces chief of staff.
* James W. Wood, 65, American aeronautical engineer and astronaut.

### 2

* Lawrence Alloway, 63, English-American art critic, cardiac arrest.
* Evangelos Averoff, 79, Greek right wing politician and author, heart attack.
* Bill Beckmann, 82, American baseball player.
* Dally Duncan, 80, Scottish footballer.
* Alan Hale, Jr., 68, American actor (Gilligan's Island, Hang 'Em High, Casey Jones), thymus cancer.
* Leonhard Merzin, 55, Soviet actor.
* Reginald Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton, 81, British politician.
* T. R. Raghunath, 77, Indian film director.
* Ben Reifel, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971), cancer.
* Marianne C. Sharp, 88, American Mormon charity activist.
* Vladimir Ussachevsky, 78, Soviet-American composer.

### 3

* Loraine Boettner, 88, American theologian.
* Mauro Cía, 70, Argentine boxer and actor.
* Reuben Jones, 57, British equestrian rider and Olympian.
* Joseph A. Loftus, 82, American journalist, stroke.
* Peter van Steeden, 85, Dutch-American composer.
* William Wells, 81, English politician.
* Bandara Wijethunga, 50, Sri Lankan writer.

### 4

* Robert Adams, 56, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
* Lydia Bilbrook, 101, English actress.
* Henry Bolte, 81, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria.
* Alberto Lleras Camargo, 83, Colombian politician, president (1958–1962).
* Harold Eugene Edgerton, 86, American electrical engineer and academic.
* Bonnie Hollingsworth, 94, American baseball player.
* Florrinell F. Morton, 85, American librarian.
* Boris Nikolsky, 89, Soviet chemist.
* Olaf Ussing, 82, Danish actor.
* Wim Volkers, 90, Dutch football player.
* Alfred Michael Watson, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate.

### 5

* Alan Handley, 77, American television producer, heart attack.
* Lola Iturbe, 87, Spanish trade unionist, activist, and journalist.
* Arthur Kennedy, 75, American actor (Bright Victory, Peyton Place, Lawrence of Arabia), Tony winner (1949), brain cancer.
* Bartell LaRue, 57, American actor.
* Kléber Piot, 69, French racing cyclist.
* Robert G. Rayburn, 74, American academic and theologian, cancer.
* Jaroslav Rössler, 87, Czechoslovak photographer.
* Genrikh Sidorenkov, 58, Russian ice hockey player.

### 6

* Gordon Aitchison, 80, Canadian basketball player.
* Walter Anderson, 92, American baseball player.
* Tadashi Asai, 54, Japanese wrestler and Olympian.
* Ian Charleson, 40, Scottish actor (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), AIDS.
* Pavel Cherenkov, 85, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958).
* Peter Cookson, 76, American actor, bone cancer.
* Hans Jaray, 83, Austrian actor and playwright.
* Gerald Mann, 82, American football player.
* Sophie Piccard, 85, Russian-Swiss mathematician.
* Jake Weber, 71, American basketball player.

### 7

* Tadeusz Brzeziński, 93, Polish-Canadian diplomat, pneumonia.
* Eero Böök, 79, Finnish chess player.
* Edward Ennis, 82, American civil rights lawyer, diabetes.
* Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, 89, British politician.
* Rose Kushner, 60, American journalist, breast cancer.
* Avraham Abba Leifer, 71, Romanian-American-Israeli rabbi.
* Bronko Nagurski, 81, Canadian-American football player, cardiac arrest.
* Joe Robbie, 73, American politician and football executive.
* Harry L. Shapiro, 87, American anthropologist.
* Napua Stevens, 71, American entertainer.
* Horace Stoneham, 86, American baseball executive.
* Johanna Töpfer, 60, German politician, suicide.

### 8

* Georgie Auld, 70, American musician, lung cancer.
* Mario Brignoli, 87, Italian Olympic racewalker (1936).
* Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, 87, German royal and art historian.
* Jaime Gil de Biedma, 60, Spanish poet, AIDS.
* Paul A. Kennon, 55, American architect, heart attack.
* Bernard Krigstein, 70, American artist.
* Raymond Krug, 65, French footballer.
* Johnny Sylvester, 74, American businessman.
* Terry-Thomas, 78, English comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Robin Hood, Bachelor Flat), Parkinson's disease.

### 9

* Paul Bauer, 93, German poet.
* Roger Bower, 86, British soldier.
* Northern Calloway, 41, American actor (Sesame Street), beaten, cardiovascular disease.
* Spud Chandler, 82, American baseball player.
* Rosemarie Clausen, 82, German photographer.
* Jim Gillette, 72, American football player.
* Rufus Mayes, 42, American football player, bacterial meningitis.
* Edward McTiernan, 97, Australian politician and judge.
* Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1971).
* Bazilio Olara-Okello, 60-61, Ugandan soldier and politician, president (1985).
* Shlomo Pines, 81, French-Israeli theologian.
* Robert B. Pirie, 84, American naval admiral.
* Cemal Süreya, 58-59, Turkish poet, diabetes.

### 10

* John Benham, 89, British athlete.
* Juliet Berto, 42, French actress, breast cancer.
* Mino Guerrini, 62, Italian film director.
* Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, 64, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
* Gene Phillips, 74, American musician.
* Liesel Schuch, 98, German singer.
* Otto Weidinger, 75, German nazi SS-obersturmbannführer during World War II.
* Lyle R. Wheeler, 84, American art director (Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Rebecca), five-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.
* Herbert Williams, 81, American sailor and Olympic champion.

### 11

* Carolyn Haywood, 92, American children's writer and illustrator.
* Earl D. Johnson, 84, United States Under Secretary of the Army.
* Ihsan Abdel Quddous, 71, Egyptian journalist, novelist and short-story writer, stroke.
* Kittens Reichert, 79, American actress.
* José Luis García Traid, 53, Spanish footballer, complications during surgery.

### 12

* Joseph Sill Clark Jr., 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969).
* John Hansen, 65, Danish footballer.
* Ralph Heikkinen, 72, American football player.
* Laurence J. Peter, 70, Canadian-American educator, stroke.
* Paul Pisk, 96, Austrian-American composer.

### 13

* Gaston Crunelle, 91, French flautist.
* Francisco Hormazábal, 69, Chilean football player and manager.
* Roy Jarvis, 63, American baseball player.
* Jenő Kalmár, 81, Hungarian footballer.
* Avraham Ofek, 54, Bulgarian-Israeli artist.
* Pierre Pascal, 80, French poet and translator.
* Gerhard Sturmberger, 49, Austrian football player.

### 14

* Ruth Bunzel, 91, American anthropologist.
* Sten-Åke Cederhök, 76, Swedish actor.
* Sabri Dino, 48, Turkish footballer, suicide.
* India Edwards, 94, American journalist.
* Ken Kilrea, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, 82, British biochemist.
* Anno Smith, 74, Dutch artist.
* James Arthur Williams, 59, American antiques dealer, heart failure.
* John Witty, 74, British film and television actor.

### 15

* Bill Albans, 64, American Olympic athlete (1948, 1952).
* Mani Madhava Chakyar, 90, Indian performance artist and sanskrit scholar.
* Brainard Cheney, 89, American writer.
* R. R. Diwakar, 95, Indian politician and writer.
* František Douda, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic shot putter (1932).
* Gordon Jackson, 66, Scottish actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Great Escape, The Ipcress File), bone cancer.
* Donold Lourie, 90, American businessman and football player.
* Fred Mundee, 76, American football player.
* William O'Neal, 40, American FBI Black Panther Party informant, suicide by traffic collision.
* Peggy van Praagh, 79, British-Australian ballet dancer and choreographer.

### 16

* Lady Eve Balfour, 91, British farmer and organic farming pioneer.
* Bill Heaton, 71, English footballer.
* Clarence Janecek, 78, American gridiron football player.
* Robert Lamartine, 54, French footballer.
* Earl Naylor, 70, American baseball player.
* Jean Saint-Fort Paillard, 76, French equestrian and Olympic champion.
* Ruskin Spear, 78, English painter.

### 17

* Andreas Aulie, 92, Norwegian jurist.
* Fritz Brocksieper, 77, German musician.
* Danie Burger, 56, South African Olympic hurdler (1956).
* Anna Arnold Hedgeman, 90, American civil rights activist.
* Charles Hernu, 66, French politician.
* André Morice, 89, French politician.
* Léon Motchane, 89, French mathematician.
* Simon Nicholson, 55, British artist.
* Y. C. James Yen, 96, Chinese educator and organizer, pneumonia.

### 18

* Melanie Appleby, 23, English singer, pneumonia.
* Kim Chang-Hee, 68, South Korean weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
* Rusty Hamer, 42, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
* Edouard Izac, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1947), heart failure.
* Candy Jones, 64, American model and broadcaster, cancer.
* Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, 78, British explorer and botanist, ALS.

### 19

* Carlo Bagno, 69, Italian actor.
* Pierre Barbizet, 67, French pianist.
* Viña Delmar, 86, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.
* Arthur Goldberg, 81, American judge and diplomat, heart failure.
* Movses Gorgisyan, 28, Soviet Armenian independence activist and soldier, killed in battle.
* Aldo Gucci, 84, Italian businessman (Gucci), prostate cancer.
* Myles Horton, 84, American educator, brain tumor.
* Alexander Pechersky, 80, Soviet soldier and humanitarian.
* Rajneesh, 58, Indian mystic, heart failure.
* Alberto Semprini, 81, English pianist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Maharram Seyidov, 37, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Herbert Wehner, 83, German politician, diabetes.
* J. Ernest Wharton, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1965).

### 20

* Jack Arkwright, 87, English rugby player.
* Claude Auclair, 46, French cartoonist.
* Robert Donington, 82, British musicologist.
* Hayedeh, 47, Iranian singer, heart attack
* Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, 102, Japanese royal and politician, prime minister (1945), heart failure.
* Hugh Ross, 91, American choral director.
* Barbara Stanwyck, 82, American actress (Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire, The Big Valley), Emmy winner (1961, 1966, 1983), heart failure.
* Fernand Vandernotte, 87, French Olympic rower (1932, 1936).

### 21

* Asbjørn Bryhn, 83, Norwegian police officer and resistance member during World War II.
* Frank Gervasi, 81, American writer and foreign correspondent, stroke.
* Trude Fleischmann, 94, Austrian-born American photographer.
* Patrick Mulligan, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate.
* Mark Sugden, 87, Irish rugby player.

### 22

* Gordon Buehrig, 85, American automobile designer.
* Giorgio Caproni, 78, Italian writer.
* James Dyson, 75, British physicist.
* Bill Ferrar, 96, English mathematician.
* Karl Frankenstein, 84, German-Israeli educator.
* Helmut Krausnick, 84, German historian and writer.
* Mariano Rumor, 74, Italian politician, prime minister (1968–1970, 1973–1974), heart attack.
* José Salomón, 73, Argentine football player.
* Roman Vishniac, 92, Russian-German-American photographer, colon cancer.

### 23

* Buzz Boll, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Clarence Bruce, 65, American baseball player.
* Allen Collins, 37, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), pneumonia.
* Wilhelm Dommes, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
* Gerald Gibbs, 82, English cinematographer.
* Nikolaus Hofreiter, 85, Austrian mathematician.
* Charley Eugene Johns, 84, American politician, governor of Florida (1953–1955).
* Derek Royle, 61, British actor, cancer.

### 24

* Madge Bellamy, 90, American actress, heart failure.
* John Blacking, 61, British anthropologist.
* Helga Gnauer, 60, Austrian Olympic fencer (1960).
* Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, 87, German royal.
* Gerry Johnson, 71, American actress and television host.
* Muhammad Juman, 54, Pakistani musician.
* Saadia Kobashi, 86, Yemenite Jewish community leader in Israel.
* Araken Patusca, 84, Brazilian football player.
* Shantilal C. Sheth, 77, Indian pediatrician and academic.

### 25

* Dámaso Alonso, 91, Spanish poet and literary critic.
* Ava Gardner, 67, American actress (Mogambo, The Night of the Iguana, The Killers), pneumonia.
* Edward C. Gleed, 73, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
* Miloš Hrazdíra, 44, Czechoslovak racing cyclist and Olympian.
* Joseph Lennon, 56, Irish politician.
* Alexander Lockwood, 87, American actor.
* Georges Mantha, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
* John L. McCrea, 98, American naval officer during World War I and World War II, pneumonia.
* Andy Puplis, 74, American football player.
* John Ramsey, 62, American sports announcer, heart attack.

### 26

* Dodo Abashidze, 65, Soviet actor and film director.
* Hal Draper, 75, American socialist activist, pneumonia.
* Lewis Garnsworthy, 67-68, Canadian Anglican prelate.
* Bob Gerard, 76, English racing driver.
* Toninho Guerreiro, 47, Brazilian football player, stroke.
* Miloslav Ištvan, 61, Czechoslovak composer.
* Ned Miller, 90, American songwriter, composer, and actor.
* Lewis Mumford, 94, American historian.
* Philip Nichols, 82, American judge, heart attack.
* Boy Trip, 68, Dutch politician.

### 27

* Miklós Borsos, 83, Hungarian sculptor.
* Pit Corder, 71, British linguist.
* Helen Jerome Eddy, 92, American actress, heart failure.
* S. Charles Lee, 90, American architect.
* Steffen Thomas, 84, German-American artist and poet.
* Travis Webb, 79, American racing driver.
* Henry Winterfeld, 88, German-American writer.

### 28

* Joseph Payne Brennan, 71, American author and poet.
* Tibor Flórián, 70, Hungarian chess player.
* Nancy Gruver, 58, American bridge player.
* Puma Jones, 36, American singer, breast cancer.
* Jan Lambrichs, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.
* Alfred McCoy, 90, American gridiron football player.
* Chesley G. Peterson, 69, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
* Edward Szymkowiak, 57, Polish football player.
* Casey Tibbs, 60, American cowboy and rodeo performer, bone cancer.
* F. W. Winterbotham, 92, British RAF officer and spy during World War II.

### 29

* Stan Batinski, 72, American football player.
* Elise Blumann, 93, German-Australian artist.
* Irma Brandeis, 84, American scholar of Dante Alighieri.
* Arnaud d'Usseau, 73, American screenwriter, stomach cancer.
* Hadwen Carlton Fuller, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1949).

### 30

* M. A. B. Beg, 55, Pakistani-American theoretical physicist.
* Severino Canavesi, 79, Italian racing cyclist.
* John Lindgren, 90, Swedish skier and Olympian.
* João Uva de Matos Proença, 51, Portuguese diplomat.

### 31

* Muammer Aksoy, 73, Turkish academic.
* Ricardo Bordallo, 62, American politician and businessman, suicide.
* Rashad Khalifa, 54, Egyptian-American biochemist, stabbed.
* Yitzhak Klinghoffer, 84, Austrian-Israeli politician.
* Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 88, German-Brazilian zoologist.
* Ramon Olalkiaga, 91, Spanish footballer.
* Samuel C. Phillips, 68, American Air Force general, cancer.
* Hans Putz, 69, Austrian actor.
* Hazel Marguerite Schmoll, 99, American botanist.
* Dick Wilson, 55, American Oglala tribal chairman, kidney failure.