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

## December 1990
### 1

* Sergio Corbucci, 63, Italian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Simone Melchior Cousteau, 71, French aquanaut, cancer.
* Pierre Dux, 82, French actor.
* Robert Gordon, 77, American director and actor.
* Erich Hüttenhain, 85, German academic mathematician and cryptographer.
* Anton Kochinyan, 77, Soviet Armenian politician.
* Carla Lehmann, 73, Canadian actress.
* Vito Miceli, 74, Italian politician and general.
* David A. Morse, 83, American labor bureaucrat.
* Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 90, Indian diplomat and politician.
* Octavio Beras Rojas, 84, Dominican Roman Catholic cardinal.

### 2

* Richard Benner, 46-47, American film director and screenwriter, AIDS.
* John Britton, 71, American baseball player.
* Marc Cerboni, 35, French Olympic fencer (1984).
* Aaron Copland, 90, American composer and conductor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Robert Cummings, 80, American actor, kidney failure and complications from pneumonia.
* Paul Hoffmann, 88, German actor.
* Edward Oldfield, 70, Australian politician.
* Paddy Smith, 96, American baseball player.
* Clint Thomas, 94, American baseball player.
* Georg Wildhagen, 70, German filmmaker.

### 3

* Tim Dlugos, 40, American poet, AIDS.
* Gerry Doyle, 79, Irish footballer.
* Rolf Hansen, 85, German film director.
* Heino Mandri, 68, Estonian film and stage actor.
* Ray Wagner, 88, American gridiron football player.

### 4

* Edward Binns, 74, American actor (12 Angry Men, North by Northwest, Judgment at Nuremberg), heart attack.
* Jack J. Catton, 70, American Air Force general.
* Charles B. MacDonald, 68, American army historian, cancer.
* Nelson Peterson, 77, American football player.
* Naoto Tajima, 78, Japanese athlete and Olympic champion.
* Kimio Yada, 77, Japanese Olympic track and field athlete (1936).

### 5

* Peter Blum, 65, South African poet.
* Robert Chesley, 47, American playwright, AIDS.
* Kai Curry-Lindahl, 73, Swedish zoologist.
* Lucy Dawidowicz, 75, American historian.
* Narayan Gopal, 51, Nepali singer, diabetes.
* Josef Jedlička, 63, Czechoslovak writer.
* Ott-Heinrich Keller, 84, German mathematician.
* Alfonso A. Ossorio, 74, Filipino-American artist.
* Jack Pleis, 73, American jazz musician.
* Howard Allen Schneiderman, 63, American entomologist.
* Steve Shaw, 25, American actor, traffic collision.

### 6

* Ed Bell, 69, American football player.
* Natan Brand, 46, Israeli classical pianist, lymphoma.
* Bob Hamilton, 74, American golfer.
* Bill Hardman, 57, American trumpeter, intracerebral hemorrhage.
* George Healis, 84, American Olympic rower (1928).
* Otto Hitzfeld, 92, German general.
* F. Jay Nimtz, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1959).
* Remi Prudhomme, 48, American football player.
* Polingaysi Qöyawayma, 98, American Hopi educator.
* Tunku Abdul Rahman, 87, Malaysian politician, prime minister (1957–1970). .
* Pavlos Sidiropoulos, 42, Greek rock singer, songwriter and guitarist, heroin overdose.

### 7

* Joan Bennett, 80, American actress, heart failure. .
* Horst Bienek, 60, German novelist, AIDS.
* Norman Bower, 83, British politician.
* Dee Clark, 52, American soul singer, heart attack.
* Jean Duceppe, 67, Stage and television actor from Montreal, Quebec.
* Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes, 47, Cuban novelist, playwright and poet, suicide.
* Pierre Henri Landry, 92, Russian-French tennis player.
* Luis Frangella, 46, Argentine-American artist, AIDS.
* Jean Paul Lemieux, 86, Canadian painter.
* Ralph McKinzie, 96, American sports coach.
* Peter Mieg, 84, Swiss composer.
* Oscar Millard, 82, English screenwriter.
* Rinaldo Ossola, 77, Italian politician.
* David Richmond, 49, American civil rights activist, lung cancer.
* Vilmos Énekes, 75, Hungarian boxer.

### 8

* John Alexander, 67, American opera singer, heart attack.
* Deane C. Davis, 90, American politician, governor of Vermont (1969–1973).
* Ed Edmondson, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1973).
* Tadeusz Kantor, 75, Polish painter and theatre director.
* Boris Kochno, 86, Russian dancer, librettist and poet, accidental fall.
* Lana Marconi, 73, Romanian-French actress.
* Forrest S. Petersen, 68, American pilot, brain cancer.
* Martin Ritt, 76, American film director (Hud, Norma Rae, Sounder), heart disease.
* William Atcheson Stewart, 75, Canadian politician.

### 9

* Ben Duijker, 87, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1928).
* Henry Hicks, 75, Canadian politician, traffic collision.
* Mike Mazurki, 82, American actor and professional wrestler.
* Nirala, 53, Pakistani comedian and actor.

### 10

* Yves Devernay, 53, French organist and composer, heart attack.
* Armand Hammer, 92, American industrialist and philanthropist, bone marrow cancer.
* Dorothea Kent, 74, American actress, breast cancer.
* Marino Morettini, 59, Italian Olympic cyclist (1952).
* Doyle Nave, 75, American football player.
* Bert Weeks, 73, Canadian politician.

### 11

* Arthur Kornhauser, 94, American industrial psychologist, stroke.
* Peter Millman, 84, Canadian astronomer.
* Robert Noble, 80, Canadian physician.
* David Turner, 63, British playwright.

### 12

* Giorgio Ghezzi, 60, Italian footballer, heart attack.
* Jack Harley, 79, British botanist.
* Concha Piquer, 83, Spanish actress and singer, heart attack.
* Ian Trethowan, 68, British journalist and broadcaster, ALS.

### 13

* Buddy Justus, 37, American convicted spree killer, execution by electric chair.
* Edwin Lester, 95, American theatre director.
* Marta Linden, 87, American actress.
* Alice Marble, 77, American tennis player and Grand Slam winner, pernicious anemia.
* Alfred Dennis Sieminski, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1959), heart attack.
* Jaroslav Volf, 57, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
* Archie Ware, 72, American baseball player.

### 14

* Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 69, Swiss crime novelist, dramatist and satirist, heart failure.
* Nan Wood Graham, 91, American artist, model for American Gothic.
* Red Heron, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Gunild Keetman, 86, German musicologist.
* Zhang Qun, 101, Taiwanese politician, premier (1947–1948).
* Francisco Gabilondo Soler, 83, Mexican composer.
* Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, 64, German businessman and noble, complications from heart surgery.
* Pietro Tordi, 84, Italian actor.

### 15

* Julio Gutiérrez, 72, Cuban musician.
* Mikayil Jabrayilov, 38, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Jean Paige, 95, American silent film actress.
* Ed Parker, 59, American martial artist, heart attack.
* Frederic Seebohm, Baron Seebohm, 81, British banker, traffic collision.
* Tamao Shiwaku, 84, Japanese Olympic runner (1936).
* Chen Zhifang, 83-84, Chinese diplomat.

### 16

* Marc Augier, 82, French far-right writer.
* Douglas Campbell, 94, American aviator and flying ace during World War I.
* Art Koeninger, 84, American football player.
* Jackie Mittoo, 42, Jamaican-Canadian musician, cancer.

### 17

* William Cobb, 72-73, American roller coaster designer.
* John Grover, 75, English cricket player.
* Frank Hutchison, 93, New Zealand cricket player.
* Eurialo De Michelis, 86, Italian writer.
* Ludwig Lachmann, 84, German economist.
* Guy Lafarge, 86, French composer of operettas and popular songs.

### 18

* Bernard Addison, 85, American guitarist.
* Arthur Roy Clapham, 86, British botanist.
* Charlie Gibson, 91, American baseball player.
* Geoffrey Giles, 67, Australian politician.
* Tadahiko Hayashi, 72, Japanese photographer, liver cancer.
* Orazio Orlando, 57, Italian actor, heart attack.
* Anne Revere, 87, American actress, pneumonia.
* Connie Russell, 67, American singer and actress (Red Hot Riding Hood).
* Greta Stevenson, 79, New Zealand mycologist.
* Paul Tortelier, 76, French cellist.
* Hazel Walker, 76, American amateur basketball player.

### 19

* Rubem Braga, 77, Brazilian writer.
* Edmond Delfour, 83, French footballer.
* Norbert Dufourcq, 86, French musicologist.
* Basil Henson, 72, English actor.
* Michael Oakeshott, 89, English philosopher.
* Count Oluf of Rosenborg, 67, Danish noble.
* Billy Tidwell, 60, American football player.

### 20

* Edward J. Bonin, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1955).
* Marc Chirik, 83, Russian-French communist revolutionary.
* Valeriu Călinoiu, 62, Romanian footballer.
* Andrea Dunbar, 29, English playwright, intracerebral hemorrhage.
* John Hewetson, 77, British newspaper editor.
* Lauro Mumar, 66, Filipino basketball player.
* Mahmudun Nabi, 54, Bangladeshi singer.
* Karl Rolvaag, 77, American politician and diplomat, governor of Minnesota (1963–1967).
* Gershom Schocken, 78, Israeli politician and journalist, liver cancer.
* Elmo Tanner, 86, American singer and whistler.

### 21

* Sigurd Anderson, 86, Norwegian-American politician, governor of South Dakota (1951–1955).
* Medard Boss, 87, Swiss psychiatrist.
* Yi Geon, 81, Korean prince and Imperial Japanese Army officer during World War II.
* Kelly Johnson, 80, American aeronautical engineer.
* Magda Julin, 96, Swedish figure skater, Olympic champion (1920).
* Ivan Knunyants, 84, Soviet chemist.
* Surendra Mohanty, 68, Indian author and politician.
* József von Platthy, 90, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1936).
* Fred Washington, 23, American football player, traffic collision.

### 22

* Cecil Effinger, 76, American composer.
* Robin Friday, 38, English footballer, heart attack.
* Ward Hawkins, 77, American author.
* Ken Irvine, 50, Australian rugby player, leukaemia.

### 23

* Pierre Chenal, 86, French filmmaker.
* Serge Danot, 59, French animator.
* József Darányi, 85, Hungarian Olympic shot putter (1928, 1932, 1936).
* Pierre Gripari, 65, French writer, complications from surgery.
* Richard Irving, 73, American actor, director and producer.
* Frank King, 64, Barbadian cricketer.
* Foy D. Kohler, 82, American diplomat.
* Herbert Salzman, 74, American businessman and Economics consultant.
* Wendell Scott, 69, American stock car racing driver, spinal cancer.
* Wilmar H. Shiras, 82, American science fiction author.

### 24

* Thorbjørn Egner, 78, Norwegian children's writer, playwright and songwriter, heart attack.
* Judith Ledeboer, 89, Dutch-English architect.
* Friedrich Luft, 79, German theatre critic.
* Rodolfo Orlandini, 85, Argentine footballer.
* Irvin Stewart, 91, American communications administrator.
* Gwyn Williams, 86, Welsh writer.

### 25

* John Stuart Anderson, 82, British-Australian chemist, cancer.
* Vladimir Belousov, 83, Soviet geologist.
* Aleksandr Luchinskiy, 90, Soviet general.
* Warwick Snedden, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
* Nicolaas Tates, 75, Dutch Olympic canoeist (1936).
* Dodo Watts, 79, British stage and film actress.

### 26

* Jack Beattie, 83, British-Canadian ice hockey player.
* Gene Callahan, 67, American set and production designer and art director, heart attack.
* George Elliott Hagan, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1973).
* Portland Hoffa, 85, American comedian, radio host, actress, and dancer.
* Eddie Kimball, 87, American football player.

### 27

* Abulfat Aliyev, 63, Soviet and Azerbaijani opera singer.
* Hendrika Gerritsen, 69, Dutch resistance member during World War II.
* Concha Michel, 91, Mexican singer-songwriter, political activist, and playwright.
* Helene Stanley, 61, American actress.
* Harold Town, 66, Canadian painter.
* Chang Ucchin, 73, South Korean artist.

### 28

* Edward Brayshaw, 57, Australian actor, throat cancer.
* Ed van der Elsken, 65, Dutch photographer, prostate cancer.
* Dario Graffi, 85, Italian mathematical physicist.
* Seiji Hisamatsu, 78, Japanese film director.
* Gilbert W. Lindsay, 90, American politician.
* Kiel Martin, 46, American actor, lung cancer.
* Arne Petersen, 77, Danish Olympic cyclist (1936).
* Warren Skaaren, 44, American screenwriter and film producer, bone cancer.

### 29

* Giulio Bedeschi, 75, Italian writer and Army officer during World War II.
* Goree Carter, 59, American singer, guitarist, drummer, and songwriter.
* Mona Dol, 89, French actress.
* Aleardo Donati, 86, Italian wrestler.
* Sir David Piper, 72, British author and museum curator.
* Aulikki Rautawaara, 84, Finnish soprano.
* Frederick Wolters, 86, American field hockey player.

### 30

* Fergal Caraher, 20, Northern-Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
* Jill Cruwys, 47, English cricket player.
* Oliver Daniel, 79, American musicologist.
* Géza Füster, 80, Hungarian-Canadian chess player.
* Albert Mertz, 70, Danish painter.
* Raghuvir Sahay, 61, Indian writer.

### 31

* Elsie Allen, 91, American Pomo basket weaver.
* George Allen, 72, American football coach, ventricular fibrillation.
* Ed Gantner, 31, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.
* Donald Kingaby, 70, English-American flying ace during World War II.
* Vasily Lazarev, 62, Soviet cosmonaut.
* Giovanni Michelucci, 99, Italian architect, urban planner and designer.
* Moni Singh, 89, Bangladeshi politician.
* Ernst von Siemens, 87, German business magnate.