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

## August 1990
### 1

* Michel Arnaud, 74, French general, heart attack.
* Roar Berthelsen, 55, Norwegian long jumper.
* Carl Ekern, 36, American football player, traffic collision.
* Norbert Elias, 93, German sociologist.
* Michael Glenny, 62, British academic and translator, heart attack.
* Lotta Hitschmanova, 80, Czech-Canadian humanitarian, cancer.
* Robert Krieps, 67, Luxembourgish politician.
* Bárbara Mujica, 46, Argentine actress, heart attack.
* Tiger Joginder Singh, 71, Indian professional wrestler.
* Graham Young, 42, English convicted serial killer, heart attack.

### 2

* Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 44, Kuwaiti royal and sports administrator, killed in battle.
* Adonias Filho, 74, Brazilian writer.
* Al Guokas, 64, American basketball player.
* Norman Maclean, 87, American novelist.
* François Perrier, 68, French psychoanalyst.
* Edwin Richfield, 68, English actor.
* Nikolaus Riehl, 89, German nuclear physicist.
* Al Rosen, 80, American actor, cancer.

### 3

* Betty Amann, 85, German-American film actress.
* Nella Maria Bonora, 86, Italian actress.
* Bob Brown, 79, American baseball player.
* Thomas Dunne, 64, Irish politician.
* M. Ranga Rao, 58, Indian composer, cancer.
* Wilbur Schwartz, 72, American musician.
* George Stavrinos, 42, Greek-American illustrator, complications of pneumonia.
* Paul Watkins, 40, American cult member (Manson Family), leukemia.

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* Ian Allison, 81, Canadian basketball player.
* As'ad Syamsul Arifin, 92-93, Indonesian ulama.
* Mathias Goeritz, 75, German-Mexican artist.
* Norman Malcolm, 79, American philosopher.
* Ettore Maserati, 95-96, Italian automotive engineer (Maserati).
* Wajahat Mirza, 82, Indian filmmaker.
* Pierre Nguyễn Huy Mai, 77, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ban Mê Thuột (1967–1990).
* John T. Wilson, 76, American academic.

### 5

* Ivan Blatný, 70, Czech-British poet.
* Aldo Grimaldi, 47-48, Italian filmmaker, cancer.
* Jacob J. Hecht, 66, American rabbi, writer and radio commentator, heart attack.
* Ellis T. Johnson, 79, American multi-sport athlete and coach.
* Kazimierz Kaszuba, 60, Polish football player.
* Zhou Keqin, 53, Chinese writer.
* George Quin, 76, Irish Anglican prelate.

### 6

* Charles Arnt, 83, American actor, cancer.
* Taylor G. Belcher, 70, American diplomat, cancer.
* Gordon Bunshaft, 81, American architect.
* George Dixon, 56, Canadian football player.
* Luis Lucchetti, 87, Argentine Olympic fencer (1928).
* Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr., 94, American general, bone cancer.
* Jacques Soustelle, 78, French politician.
* Antoon van Schendel, 80, Dutch road bicycle racer.
* Pat Wall, 57, English politician.

### 7

* Diego Carpitella, 66, Italian professor of ethnomusicology.
* Tamara Deutscher, 77, Polish-British writer.
* Phiny Dick, 77, Dutch illustrator and children's writer.
* Gebhard Müller, 90, German politician.
* Chepudira Muthana Poonacha, 79, Indian politician.

### 8

* Andrzej Dobrowolski, 68, Polish composer.
* Wallace Douglas, 78, Canadian producer, director and actor.
* Joseph H. Harper, 89, United States Army officer.
* Gopal Singh, 72, Indian Governor and politician.
* Urho Teräs, 75, Finnish football player.

### 9

* Dorothy Appleby, 84, American actress.
* William Bosworth Castle, 92, American physician.
* Joe Mercer, 76, English football player.
* Władysław Orlicz, 87, Polish mathematician.
* Art Van Tone, 71, American gridiron football player.

### 10

* Jacobo Arenas, 66, Colombian guerrilla leader, cancer.
* Harold Boyd, 89, Australian football player.
* Martha Dodd, 81, American writer.
* Cookie Lavagetto, 77, American baseball player.
* Helmut Lipfert, 74, German flying ace during World War II.
* David Martin, 57, Australian politician, lung cancer.
* Eugenia Ravasio, 82, Italian Roman Catholic nun.
* Joško Vidošević, 55, Yugoslav football player.

### 11

* Bonnie Baker, 73, American singer.
* Gonzalo Gaviria, 43, Colombian drug lord, shot.
* Asa S. Knowles, 81, American academic.
* Charles Marquis Warren, 77, American filmmaker, ventricular aneurysm.

### 12

* Paul Cuba, 82, American football player.
* Ethyl Eichelberger, 45, American drag queen, suicide by exsanguination.
* Christa Jungnickel, 55, German-American science historian.
* B. Kliban, 55, American cartoonist, pulmonary embolism.
* Dorothy Mackaill, 87, British-American actress, liver failure.
* Piotr Perkowski, 89, Polish composer.
* Sara Seegar, 76, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
* James Stewart, 80, Canadian basketball player.
* Fay Thomas, 86, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
* Roy Williamson, 54, Scottish songwriter, brain cancer.

### 13

* Caridad Bravo Adams, 82, Mexican screenwriter.
* Dallas Bixler, 80, American Olympic gymnast (1932).
* Hedley Donovan, 76, American magazine editor.
* Inés Mendoza, 82, Puerto Rican writer, first lady (1949–1965).
* Alejandro Otero, 69, Venezuelan painter and sculptor.
* Jimmy Starr, 86, American screenwriter.
* Henry Swoboda, 92, Czechoslovakian conductor.

### 14

* Henry Crown, 94, American industrialist.
* John Fox, 38, American writer, AIDS.
* Lafayette Leake, 71, American jazz musician, diabetes.
* Sun Lianzhong, 97, Taiwanese general.
* Thomas Matthewman, 87, British Olympic sprinter (1924).
* Liu Xingyuan, 81, Chinese politician and general.

### 15

* Nina Bara, 70, American actress.
* Jimmy Carruthers, 61, Australian boxer, lung cancer.
* Lew DeWitt, 52, American musician, kidney failure.
* Bob Garbark, 80, American baseball player.
* Billy Hume, 54, Scottish football player.
* Inger Koppernæs, 62, Norwegian politician.
* Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, 76, Indian dancer.
* Viktor Tsoi, 28, Soviet singer, traffic collision.
* Louis Vola, 88, French bassist.

### 16

* Pierre Bonnet, 92, French arachnologist.
* Bobby Gordon, 54, American football player.
* Pat O'Connor, 65, New Zealand wrestler, cancer.
* Ernest Pogosyants, 55, Soviet chess player.
* Ricardo Saprissa, 89, Salvadoran-Costa Rican football player.

### 17

* Pearl Bailey, 72, American actress (Hello, Dolly!) and singer ("Takes Two to Tango"), cardiovascular disease.
* David A. Burchinal, 75, American general, cancer.
* Roderick Cook, 58, English actor and playwright, heart attack.
* Ian Handysides, 27, English footballer, brain cancer.
* Gordon Parsons, 63, Australian country music singer-songwriter.
* Maria Paudler, 87, German actress.
* Larry Weldon, 75, American football player.
* Graham Williams, 45, English television producer, shot.

### 18

* Grethe Ingmann, 52, Danish singer, cancer.
* József Kovács, 79, Hungarian hurdler.
* D. Scott Rogo, 40, American writer, murdered.
* Mary Shaw Shorb, 83, American biochemist.
* B. F. Skinner, 86, American social philosopher, leukemia.

### 19

* Olavi Alakulppi, 75, Finnish military officer and cross-country skier.
* Ilham Aliyev, 29, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
* Jim Cavanagh, 77, Australian politician.
* Ercole Gallegati, 78, Italian wrestler.
* Anna Rutgers van der Loeff, 80, Dutch writer of children's novels.
* Stephen Edward Smith, 62, American political consultant, lung cancer.
* Richard Strout, 92, American journalist, complications from a fall.

### 20

* Tim Barrett, 61, English actor.
* Bill Curry, 54, English football player.
* Rudolf Gellesch, 76, German football player.
* Maurice Gendron, 69, French cellist.
* Ray Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.
* John La Nauze, 79, Australian historian.
* Ike Sewell, 86, American businessman (Uno Pizzeria & Grill), leukemia.

### 21

* Antonio Argilés, 58, Spanish footballer.
* Larry Buhler, 73, American football player.
* Bill Lasley, 88, American baseball player.
* Bob Uhl, 76, American baseball player.

### 22

* Luigi Dadaglio, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* Patrick McAlinney, 76, Irish actor.
* Edward W. Pattison, 58, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1979), liver cancer.
* Boris Shcherbina, 70, Soviet politician.

### 23

* Samuel J. Brown, 72, American fighter pilot during World War II.
* Yutaka Kanai, 30, Japanese Olympic runner (1984), accident.
* Karl Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, 86, German noble, head of the house of Löwenstein-Wertheim (since 1952).
* Parviz Natel-Khanlari, 76, Iranian politician.
* David Rose, 80, American songwriter ("The Stripper"), heart attack.
* Omero Tognon, 66, Italian football player.

### 24

* Victor Civita, 83, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher.
* Sergei Dovlatov, 48, Soviet writer, heart failure.
* Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, 89, British politician and artist.
* Harold Masursky, 67, American geologist.
* Nick Metz, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Mickey Witek, 74, American baseball player.

### 25

* Talbert Abrams, 95, American photographer and aviator.
* Willard Leon Beaulac, 91, American diplomat, Alzheimer's disease.
* Morley Callaghan, 87, Canadian writer.
* David Hampshire, 72, British racing driver.

### 26

* Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, 61, Iranian poet.
* Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, 90, British politician.
* Mário Pinto de Andrade, 62, Angolan poet and politician.
* Minoru Honda, 77, Japanese astronomer.
* Roh Ogura, 74, Japanese composer.
* Paul Potts, 79, British-Canadian poet.
* Retta Scott, 74, American animator.
* Tom Toner, 40, American football player, cancer.

### 27

* Avdy Andresson, 90, Estonian Minister of War in exile
* Ed Balatti, 66, American football player.
* Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 84, Australian historian.
* Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma.
* Ramón Piñeiro López, 75, Spanish writer and politician.
* Armin Scheurer, 72, Swiss athlete and football coach.
* Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, American blues musician and guitarist, helicopter crash.

### 28

* Sumitra Devi, 67, Indian actress.
* Larry Jackson, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
* Richard Lauffen, 83, German actor.
* Edmund H. North, 79, American screenwriter.
* Rosely Roth, 31, Brazilian LGBT activist, suicide.
* Paul Rowe, 73, Canadian football player.
* Victorio Spinetto, 79, Argentine footballer.
* Eva Stiberg, 69, Swedish actress.
* Willy Vandersteen, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Spike and Suzy).

### 29

* Luigi Beccali, 82, Italian Olympic runner (1932).
* Manly Palmer Hall, 89, Canadian philosopher.
* Chin Fung Kee, 70, Malaysian civil engineer.
* Solomon Mikhlin, 82, Soviet mathematician, stroke.
* Sayyid Shahab al-DIn Mar'ashi Najafi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
* Juozas Vinča, 84, Lithuanian-American boxer and Olympian.

### 30

* Lou Garland, 85, American baseball player.
* Edmund G. Love, 78, American author, heart attack.
* Ch'ien Mu, 95, Chinese-Taiwanese historian and philosopher.
* Bernard D. H. Tellegen, 90, Dutch electrical engineer.

### 31

* Bert Assirati, 82, English professional wrestler, bladder cancer.
* Nathaniel Clifton, 67, American basketball player.
* James H. Donovan, 66, American politician, colon cancer.
* Henry From, 64, Danish footballer.
* Frank Hindman Golay, 75, American economist.
* Johnny Lindsay, 81, South African cricket player.
* Jack C. Rowan, 79, American football coach.
* Sergey Volkov, 41, Soviet figure skater and Olympian, stomach cancer.