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

## October 1990
### 1

* John Stewart Bell, 62, Northern Irish physicist, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Edmund George Irving, 80, British hydrographer.
* Andrzej Krzanowski, 39, Polish composer.
* Augustin Laurent, 94, French politician.
* Curtis LeMay, 83, American general, heart attack.
* Russell Thacher, 71, American film producer (Soylent Green), complications from surgery.
* Tommy Thompson, 63, American football player, cancer.

### 2

* Peter Herman Adler, 90, Austrian-born American conductor.
* Xosé María Díaz Castro, 76, Galician poet and translator.
* John Groff, 100, American general, heart attack.
* Loni Nest, 75, German actress.
* Isolina Rondón, 77, Puerto Rican nationalist.
* Fred Rwigyema, 33, Rwandan soldier, shot.
* Heinie Schuble, 83, American baseball player.
* Mercedes Simone, 86, Argentinian singer and actress.
* Norbert Vesak, 53, Canadian choreographer, brain aneurysm.

### 3

* Winslow Ames, 83, American art historian, heart attack.
* Amy Bailey, 94, Jamaican civil rights activist.
* Charlotte Boyle, 91, American swimmer.
* Stefano Casiraghi, 30, Italian powerboat racer, boating accident.
* Res Jost, 72, Swiss theoretical physicist.
* Eleanor Steber, 76, American opera singer, complications from heart surgery.

### 4

* Alyn Ainsworth, 66, British musician.
* Jill Bennett, 63, English actress, drug overdose.
* Avis Bunnage, 67, English actress.
* Erwin Bünning, 84, German biologist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Luciano Catenacci, 57, Italian actor.
* Roy Charman, 60, English sound engineer.
* Jacques de Mahieu, 74, French-Argentine anthropologist and peronist.
* Vance Dinges, 75, American baseball player.
* Sergey Lapin, 78, Soviet diplomat.
* František Nekolný, 82, Czechoslovak boxer.
* Waldemar Philippi, 61, German footballer.
* Ray Stephens, 35, American singer (Village People) and actor (The Great Space Coaster), AIDS.
* Peter Taylor, 62, English football player, lung disease.

### 5

* Félix Dafauce, 93, Spanish actor.
* André Grabar, 94, Ukrainian-American art historian.
* Dixie Howell, 70, American baseball player.
* Yoshio Kondo, 80, American Biologist and malacologist.
* J. Murray Mitchell, 62, American climatologist.
* Sam Taylor, 74, American saxophonist.
* Ramkumar Verma, 85, Hindi poet.
* Đorđe Vujadinović, 80, Yugoslav football player.
* Jan Hendrik Waszink, 81, Dutch Latin scholar.

### 6

* Märta Dorff, 81, Swedish film actress.
* Asser Fagerström, 78, Finnish pianist, composer and actor.
* James E. Newcom, 85, American film editor.
* Danny Rodriguez, 22, American Christian rapper, shot.
* Richard P. Ross Jr., 84, American general.
* Henryk Vogelfanger, 86, Polish actor.
* Bahriye Üçok, 70-71, Turkish politician and journalist, assassinated.

### 7

* Chiara Badano, 18, Italian Catholic activist, osteosarcoma, bone cancer.
* Bellarmino Bagatti, 84, Italian archaeologist.
* Darrel Brown, 67, American basketball player.
* Beatrice Hutton, 97, Australian architect.
* Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, 78, Emirati politician, prime minister (since 1979).
* Scott M. Matheson, 61, American politician, governor of Utah (1977–1985), multiple myeloma.
* Grim Natwick, 100, American animator (Fleischer Studios), pneumonia.
* Manuel Ramos Otero, 42, Puerto Rican writer, AIDS.

### 8

* Juan José Arévalo, 86, Guatemalan politician, president (1945–1951).
* Frank Cope, 74, American football player.
* William Henry Harrison III, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1955, 1961–1965, 1967–1969), heart failure.
* William James Jameson, 92, American judge.
* Jimmy Mills, 96, Scottish-American footballer.
* Robert F. Murphy, 66, American anthropologist, heart failure.
* Kamalapati Tripathi, 85, Indian politician.
* Eric Wennström, 81, Swedish hurdler.
* B.J. Wilson, 43, English drummer, pneumonia.

### 9

* Mildred Bayer, 81, American humanitarian.
* Murray Bowen, 77, American psychologist.
* John Brooks, 80, American Olympic long jumper (1936).
* Georges de Rham, 87, Swiss mathematician.
* Dessie Grew, 37, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
* Markku Hakulinen, 34, Finnish ice hockey player, suicide by train collision.
* Martin McCaughey, 23, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
* Richard Murdoch, 83, English actor.
* Arnold Olsen, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971).
* Géza Ottlik, 78, Hungarian writer and mathematician.
* Boris Paichadze, 75, Soviet footballer.
* Lars Thörn, 86, Swedish sailor.

### 10

* Kenneth Cross (physiologist), 74, British physiologist.
* Emil Josef Diemer, 82, German chess player.
* Walter Hammersen, 79, German politician.
* Dick Jorgensen, 56, American football official, cancer.
* Irene Mayer Selznick, 83, American theatrical producer, breast cancer.
* Jerónimo Mihura, 88, Spanish film director.
* Wally Moses, 80, American baseball player.
* Tom Murton, 62, American prison warden, cancer.
* Floyd R. Newman, 100, American oil businessman.
* Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 51, American politician, cancer.
* Edward Szostak, 79, Polish basketball player.
* Carlos Thompson, 67, Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot.
* Josef Trousílek, 72, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.

### 11

* Ichio Asukata, 75, Japanese politician.
* Anatole Broyard, 70, American writer and journalist, prostate cancer.
* George Corbett, 82, American football player.
* Günter Kuhnke, 78, German submarine commander.
* Ken Spain, 44, American basketball player, cancer.
* Robert Tessier, 56, American actor, cancer.
* Adri van Male, 80, Dutch footballer.

### 12

* Rifaat el-Mahgoub, 64, Egyptian politician, shot.
* Leonard Krieger, 72, American historian.
* Leif Larsen, 84, Norwegian sailor and war hero.
* Rahman Morina, 47, Yugoslav politician, heart attack.
* John O'Brien, 65, New Zealand politician.
* Frederick Rossini, 91, American thermodynamicist.
* Bridget Bate Tichenor, 72, British surrealist painter and fashion editor.
* Peter Wessel Zapffe, 90, Norwegian philosopher.

### 13

* Lino Donoso, 68, Cuban baseball player.
* Douglas Edwards, 73, American newscaster, bladder cancer.
* Hans Freudenthal, 85, German-born Dutch mathematician.
* Hans Namuth, 75, German-American photographer, traffic collision.
* Le Duc Tho, 78, Vietnamese politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient (1973), cancer.
* Lewis Veraldi, 60, American automotive engineer, heart attack.

### 14

* Leonard Bernstein, 72, American conductor and composer (West Side Story), pneumonia.
* Tom Brigance, 77, American fashion designer.
* Leon Brown, 71, American basketball player.
* Daniel Guilet, 91, French-American violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Irina Odoyevtseva, 95, Russian poet, novelist and memoirist.
* Clifton Pugh, 65, Australian artist, heart attack.
* Carin Swensson, 85, Swedish actress.

### 15

* Tibor Berczelly, 78, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).
* Helen Bray, 100, American silent film actress.
* Sam Dolgoff, 88, Russian-American anarchist.
* Wilhelm Magnus, 83, German-American mathematician.
* David McCalden, 39, British-American far-right activist, AIDS.
* William Edwin Minshall, Jr., 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1974).
* Gwen Nelson, 89, English actress.
* Yu Pingbo, 90, Chinese literary critic.
* Boris Piotrovsky, 82, Soviet archaeologist.
* Delphine Seyrig, 58, French actress, ovarian cancer.
* Om Shivpuri, 52, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Vital Van Landeghem, 77, Belgian football player.

### 16

* Art Blakey, 71, American drummer, lung cancer.
* Jorge Bolet, 75, Cuban-American pianist, AIDS-related complications.
* Douglas Campbell, 94, American flying ace during World War I.
* Dorothy M. Healy, 76, American historian.
* Berl Huffman, 83, American sports coach.
* Carl Just, 93, Norwegian journalist.
* Blake Pelly, 83, Australian politician and businessman.
* Roger Powell, 94, English bookbinder.
* Giovanni Varglien, 79, Italian footballer.
* Alexander Zakin, 87, Russian-American pianist, heart failure.

### 17

* Ralph Bowman, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Denis Cordner, 66, Australian footballer.
* Harry Fletcher, 80, Australian politician.
* Seth Morgan, 41, American novelist, traffic collision.
* Jordan Olivar, 75, American football player, cancer.
* Tadashige Ono, 81, Japanese artist.
* Paul Seabury, 67, American political scientist, kidney failure.

### 18

* Michael Bigg, 50, English-Canadian marine biologist, leukemia.
* Marie-France Dufour, 41, French singer, leukemia.
* Nick Etten, 77, American baseball player.
* Pyotr Fedoseyev, 82, Soviet philosopher.
* Sol Furth, 83, American Olympic jumper (1932).
* Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 99, British scientific administrator (CERN).
* Harry Marker, 91, American film editor.
* Heinz Oskar Vetter, 72, German politician.

### 19

* Jerry Cronin, 65, Irish politician, Parkinson's disease.
* Haim Gvati, 89, Israeli zionist activist and politician.
* René Highway, 35, Canadian dancer, AIDS.
* Augusto Tiezzi, 80, Italian cinematographer.
* Samuel Wilbert Tucker, 77, American lawyer.
* Lew Worsham, 73, American golfer.

### 20

* Colette Audry, 84, French writer.
* Américo Hoss, 76, Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer.
* Freda Jackson, 82, English actress.
* Alma Theodora Lee, 78, Australian botanist and plant taxonomist.
* Joel McCrea, 84, American actor, pneumonia.
* Kona Prabhakara Rao, 74, Indian politician, cardiopulmonary failure.

### 21

* Karl Egil Aubert, 66, Norwegian mathematician.
* Tom Carvel, 84, Greek-American businessman.
* Dany Chamoun, 56, Lebanese politician, murdered.
* Eugen Haugland, 78, Norwegian triple jumper and Olympian.
* Jo Ann Kelly, 46, English musician, brain cancer.
* Lotar Olias, 76, German composer.
* Brij Sadanah, 57, Indian filmmaker, suicide by gunshot.
* Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, 69, Indian composer and guru, heart attack.
* Athol Shmith, 76, Australian photographer.
* Ruth Stockton, 74, American politician.
* Frank Waddey, 85, American baseball player.

### 22

* Louis Althusser, 72, French philosopher, heart attack.
* Kamil Lhoták, 78, Czechoslovak artist.
* Nikolay Rybnikov, 59, Soviet and Russian film actor, heart attack.
* Frank Sinkwich, 70, American football player.

### 23

* Norman Buchan, 67, British politician.
* P. K. Kelkar, 81, Indian scientist.
* Berthold Lubetkin, 88, Georgian-British architect.
* Zephania Mothopeng, 77, South African political activist, lung cancer.
* Dave Murray, 37, Canadian skier and Olympian, skin cancer.
* Thomas Williams, 63, American novelist, lung cancer.

### 24

* André Aumerle, 83, French cyclist.
* Jim Clark, 63, American baseball player.
* Boris Maluev, 61, Soviet and Russian painter.
* John Sex, 34, American singer, AIDS.
* Richard Tyler, 62, American sound engineer.

### 25

* Ed Bagdon, 64, American football player.
* Major Holley, 66, American bassist, heart attack.
* Zara Mints, 63, Soviet literary scientist.
* Bennie Oosterbaan, 84, American football player.
* Alberto da Costa Pereira, 60, Portuguese footballer.
* Ikey Robinson, 86, American banjoist.
* Williamson A. Sangma, 71, Indian politician.

### 26

* Lawrence Andreasen, 44, American diver, accidental fall.
* Robert Antelme, 73, French writer.
* Joan Brown, 52, American painter, blunt force trauma, accident.
* Arne Dagfin Dahl, 96, Norwegian soldier.
* Guillermo Garcia Gonzales, 36, Cuban chess Grandmaster, traffic collision.
* Breandán Ó hEithir, 60, Irish writer and broadcaster.
* Ödön Lendvay, 47, Hungarian basketball player.
* William S. Paley, 89, American television executive, kidney failure.
* Johnny Sanders, 68, American football executive, heart failure.
* Harry Wilson, 88, American multi-athlete.

### 27

* Chet Adams, 75, American football player.
* Rafael Banquells, 73, Cuban-Mexican actor, director and TV producer.
* Xavier Cugat, 90, Spanish musician, heart failure.
* Jacques Demy, 59, French film director and lyricist, AIDS.
* Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, 89, Austrian noble, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
* Wacław Kowalski, 74, Polish actor.
* Elliott Roosevelt, 80, American general and politician, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, heart failure.
* Ugo Tognazzi, 68, Italian actor and filmmaker, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Béla Volentik, 82, Hungarian football player.

### 28

* Aleksandra Chudina, 66, Soviet athlete, stomach cancer.
* Ernst Rudolf Huber, 87, German jurist.
* Gervasio, 42, Uruguayan singer.
* Kolau Nadiradze, 95, Soviet poet.
* Geminio Ognio, 72, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).
* Robert Jan Verbelen, 79, Belgian nazi collaborator during World War II.

### 29

* Aleksei Alelyukhin, 70, Soviet flying ace during World War II.
* Joseph Attles, 87, American actor.
* Herbert Brodkin, 77, American producer and director of film and television.
* Emrys Roberts, 80, Welsh politician.
* William French Smith, 73, American lawyer, attorney general (1981–1985), cancer.
* Juha Vainio, 52, Finnish musician, heart attack.
* Volker von Collande, 76, German actor and filmmaker.

### 30

* Wim Gijsen, 57, Dutch author.
* Willy Jürissen, 78, German football player.
* Harry Lauter, 76, American actor, heart attack.
* Vinod Mehra, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
* Craig Russell, 42, Canadian drag queen and actor, AIDS.
* Alfred Sauvy, 91, French demographer.
* V. Shantaram, 88, Indian actor and filmmaker.
* Tom Steele, 81, American stuntman.
* Piroska Szekrényessy, 74, Hungarian pair skater and Olympian.
* Kwok Tak-Seng, 79, Hong Kong businessman, heart attack.
* Germaine Van Dievoet, 91, Belgian swimmer.

### 31

* Carl Belew, 59, American country musician, cancer.
* Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, 84, British diplomat.
* Jim Foster, 55, American LGBT activist, AIDS.
* Aya Kōda, 86, Japanese novelist, heart attack.
* Hugh McPhillips, 70, American actor and television director, traffic collision.
* Roger Price, 72, American humorist and author.
* M. L. Vasanthakumari, 62, Indian singer, cancer.