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

## February 1990
### 1

* Gianfranco Contini, 78, Italian academic and philologist.
* Lauritz Falk, 80, Swedish-Norwegian actor.
* Peter Racine Fricker, 69, English composer, throat cancer.
* Hassan Ibrahim, 73, Egyptian Air Force officer.
* Yeghishe Derderian of Jerusalem, 78, Israeli Armenian patriarch (since 1960), heart attack.
* Jadwiga Wajs, 78, Polish Olympic discus thrower (1932, 1936).

### 2

* Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, 84, British Mistress of the Robes (since 1964).
* Paul Ariste, 84, Soviet linguist.
* Paul Arzens, 86, French industrial automotive designer.
* Benedict Daswa, 43, South African educator, beaten to death.
* Enrico De Pedis, 35, Italian gangster, homicide.
* Joel Fluellen, 82, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
* Mel Lewis, 60, American drummer, skin cancer.
* Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, 79, Norwegian fiddler.
* Hans Schumm, 93, German-American actor, heart failure.
* Don Welsh, 78, English football player.

### 3

* Erv Kantlehner, 97, American baseball player.
* Willibald Kirbes, 87, Austrian football player.
* Jane Novak, 94, American actress, stroke.
* Pa Tepaeru Terito Ariki, 66, Cook Islander lyricist ("Te Atua Mou E").
* Marcel Thévenet, 74, French weightlifter and Olympian.

### 4

* Zé Beto, 29, Portuguese footballer, traffic collision.
* Jean Galloway Bissell, 53, American judge, cancer.
* Leonard J. Fick, 74, American academic, heart disease.
* Maria Gambarelli, 89, Italian-American actress and dancer.
* Berta Karlik, 86, Austrian physicist.
* Archibald Ross Lewis, 75, American historian.
* Kate Simon, 77, Polish-American writer.
* Whipper Billy Watson, 72, Canadian wrestler and trainer.

### 5

* W. W. Bartley III, 55, American philosopher, bladder cancer.
* Edgar Herschler, 71, American politician, governor of Wyoming (1975–1987), cancer.
* Père Marie-Benoît, 94, French humanitarian.
* Joseph Mauclair, 83, French road bicycle racer from 1927 to 1938.
* Joseph J. Nazzaro, 76, American Air Force general, cancer.
* King Perry, 75, American musician.

### 6

* Bin Akao, 91, Japanese politician, heart failure.
* Jeannine Auboyer, 77, French museum curator.
* Bernard Bernstein, 81, American economist, cardiac arrest.
* John Merivale, 72, Canadian-British actor, kidney failure.
* Jimmy Van Heusen, 77, American composer, complications from a stroke.

### 7

* Thomas Clark, 83, American Olympic rower (1932).
* Tony Fomison, 50, New Zealand artist.
* Max Koecher, 66, German mathematician.
* Alan Perlis, 67, American computer scientist, heart attack.
* Alfredo M. Santos, 84, Filipino general.

### 8

* Rhys Adrian, 61, British playwright and screenwriter.
* Bernice Carey, 78–79, American mystery writer.
* Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., 77, American painter and musician, father of Muhammad Ali, heart attack.
* George de Mestral, 82, Swiss electrical engineer and inventor of velcro.
* Xu Deheng, 99, Chinese politician.
* Katalin Karády, 79, Hungarian actress and singer.
* Pete Kmetovic, 70, American football player.
* Charles Maclean, Baron Maclean, 73, British hereditary peer.
* Del Shannon, 55, American musician, suicide by gunshot.
* Ernest William Titterton, 73, British nuclear physicist, pulmonary embolism.

### 9

* James Fleming Gordon, 71, American judge.
* Ilse Hollweg, 67, German opera singer.
* Saroj Mukherjee, 79, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
* John Poelker, 76, American politician.
* Jan Wojnowski, 43, Polish weightlifter and Olympian.

### 10

* Clara González, 88, Panamanian feminist, judge, and activist.
* Knut Hansson, 78, Swedish footballer.
* Luigi Musina, 75, Italian boxer.
* John Arthur Pilcher, 77, British diplomat.
* Bill Sherwood, 37, American musician and filmmaker, AIDS.
* Tony Solaita, 43, American baseball player, shot.

### 11

* Léopold Anoul, 67, Belgian football player.
* Tom Brennan, 59, American basketball player.
* Marie-Dominique Chenu, 95, French theologian.
* Enrique Kistenmacher, 66, Argentine Olympic athlete (1948).
* Colin Henderson Roberts, 80, British classical scholar.

### 12

* Joseph Peter Michael Denning, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Erling Enger, 90, Norwegian painter.
* Harold McCusker, 50, Northern Irish politician, cancer.
* Victor Pokrovsky, 92, Russian choir director, translator, and music arranger.
* Nenad Radulović, 30, Yugoslav singer, testicular cancer.

### 13

* Binyomin Beinush Finkel, 78–79, Soviet-Israeli rabbi.
* Angela Gregory, 86, American sculptor.
* Heinz Haber, 76, German physicist.
* Manuel Rodriguez Lopez, 55, Galician poet and writer.
* Ken Lynch, 79, American actor, viral illness.
* Leon Stein, 77–78, American writer.

### 14

* Armistead L. Boothe, 82, American politician.
* Michel Drach, 59, French filmmaker.
* Graeme Hole, 59, Australian cricketer, cancer.
* Tony Holiday, 38, German singer, AIDS.
* Slick Johnson, 41, American racing driver, racing collision.
* Dick Martin, 62, American artist.
* José Luis Panizo, 68, Spanish footballer.
* John M. Robsion Jr., 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1959).
* Fritz Schulz-Reichel, 77, German pianist.
* Jean Wallace, 66, American actress, gastrointestinal bleeding.
* Luděk Čajka, 26, Czechoslovak ice hockey player, spinal cord injury.

### 15

* Keyes Beech, 76, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
* Henry Brandon, 77, German-American actor, heart attack.
* George Daney, 43, American football player, carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Dolores Faith, 48, American actress, suicide.
* Ulf Johanson, 68, Swedish actor.
* Frans Kellendonk, 39, Dutch novelist, AIDS.
* Dorival Knippel, 72, Brazilian footballer.
* Jack C. Massey, 85, American businessman, pneumonia.
* Norman Parkinson, 76, English photographer.
* Rudolf Schaad, 88, Russian-German film editor.

### 16

* John Eastaugh, 69, British Anglican prelate.
* Keith Haring, 31, American artist, AIDS.
* Nurul Momen, 81, Bangladeshi playwright.
* Luis Ortiz Monasterio, 83, Mexican sculptor.
* József Moravetz, 79, Romanian football player.
* Tadanari Okamoto, 58, Japanese animator.
* Volodymyr Scherbytsky, 71, Soviet and Ukrainian politician, pneumonia.
* Joshua Shelley, 70, American actor.
* J. C. Trewin, 81, British journalist.

### 17

* Robert Bernard, 76, German footballer.
* Jean-Marc Boivin, 38, French mountaineer, extreme sports person, film maker, and author, BASE jumping accident.
* Brendan Corish, 71, Irish politician.
* Larry Cox, 42, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Hap Day, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Dino Falconi, 87, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Erik Rhodes, 84, American actor, pneumonia.
* Allen Rivkin, 86, American screenwriter.
* Hans Speier, 85, German-American sociologist.

### 18

* Günther Bornkamm, 84, German theologian.
* Herman Carlson, 83, Swedish ice hockey player.
* Margaret Craske, 97, British ballet dancer and choreographer.
* Richard de Zoysa, 31, Sri Lankan journalist, human rights activist and actor, shot.
* Joe Erskine, 56, Welsh boxer.
* Tor Isedal, 65, Swedish actor.
* Frank Ross, 85, American filmmaker, complications from brain surgery.

### 19

* Edris Rice-Wray Carson, 86, American medical researcher.
* Ernest Cole, 49, South African photographer, cancer.
* Gabriel Katzka, 59, American theater, film and television producer, heart attack.
* Francis Keppel, 73, American educator.
* Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, 74, British socialite.
* Otto E. Neugebauer, 90, Austrian-American mathematician and science historian.
* Janusz Paluszkiewicz, 77, Polish actor.
* Michael Powell, 84, English filmmaker, cancer.
* Abdul Matin Chowdhury, Shaikh-e-Fulbari, 74–75, Bangladeshi religious scholar.
* Massey H. Shepherd, 76, American priest and scholar.
* William White, 69, Scottish cricketer. field hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.

### 20

* Sergio Camargo, 59, Brazilian sculptor and relief maker.
* Cecil Garriott, 73, American baseball player.
* Harry Klinefelter, 77, American physician.
* Verdina Shlonsky, 85, Russian-Israeli musician.

### 21

* Zohrabai Ambalewali, 71–72, Indian singer.
* Johnny Borland, 64, New Zealand athletics official.
* Juanita Larrauri, 79, Argentine singer and politician.
* Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, 86, Romanian-American mathematician.
* Vincent Teresa, 59–60, American mobster (Patriarca crime family), kidney failure.

### 22

* Stephen W. Burns, 35, American actor, AIDS.
* T. O. Honiball, 85, South African cartoonist.
* Andrew Jarvis, 99, Greek-American politician and businessman.
* Victor Lasky, 72, American writer.
* Evald Seepere, 78, Soviet/Estonian boxer.

### 23

* Amritlal, 73, Indian writer.
* Arne Bang-Hansen, 78, Norwegian actor.
* José Napoleón Duarte, 64, Salvadoran politician, president (1984–1989), stomach cancer.
* James M. Gavin, 82, American general.
* Stan Hough, 71, American film producer.
* Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, 37–38, Pakistani cleric, murdered.
* David Samoylov, 69, Russian poet.
* Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, 53, Dutch politician, cancer.

### 24

* Arthur Ayrault, 55, American Olympic rower (1956, 1960).
* Tony Conigliaro, 45, American baseball player, kidney failure.
* Malcolm Forbes, 70, American politician and publisher (Forbes), heart attack.
* Lloyd Jordan, 89, American sports player and coach.
* Jure Kaštelan, 70, Yugoslav poet.
* Arch Nicholson, 48, Australian film director, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Sandro Pertini, 93, Italian politician, president (1978–1985).
* Johnnie Ray, 63, American singer ("Cry"), liver failure.
* Gabriel Sempé, 88, French Olympic hurdler (1924, 1928).
* Darryl Usher, 25, American football player, shot.

### 25

* André de Korver, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.
* Henry Fairlie, 66, British political journalist.
* Estelle Peck Ishigo, 90, American artist and author.
* Ingrid Larsen, 80, Danish chess player.

### 26

* Lew Erber, 55, American gridiron football coach.
* Julian Gascoigne, 86, British general.
* Cornell Gunter, 53, American singer, shot.
* Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, 97, American heiress and publisher (The New York Times).
* Margot Walle, 68, Norwegian Olympic skater (1948).
* Wu Zhong, 68, Chinese general, car accident.

### 27

* Les Ames, 84, English cricket player.
* Johannes Draaijer, 26, Dutch racing driver, heart block, heart attack.
* Vern Freiburger, 66, American baseball player.
* Alberto Mario Giustolisi, 61, Italian chess player.
* Nahum Norbert Glatzer, 86, Austrian-American historian and philosopher.
* Josephine Johnson, 79, American novelist, pneumonia.
* Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc, 75, Vietnamese politician, prime minister (1954).
* Alexandru Rosetti, 94, Romanian linguist, accident.

### 28

* Erik Anderberg, 98, Swedish naval admiral.
* Jack Conroy, 90, American leftist writer.
* Mario Craveri, 87, Italian filmmaker.
* Sylvia del Villard, 62, Puerto Rican actress and dancer.
* Fabia Drake, 86, British actress.
* Kornel Filipowicz, 76, Polish writer, lung cancer.
* Russell Jacquet, 72, American trumpeter, heart attack.
* Colin Milburn, 48, English cricketer, heart attack.
* Wallace Reid Jr., 72, American actor, plane crash.
* John O'Sullivan, 88, Irish politician.
* Tuppy Owen-Smith, 81, South African cricket player.
* David Prichard, 26, American guitarist, leukemia.
* Greville Wynne, 70, British engineer and intelligence officer, esophageal cancer.