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

## July 1990
### 1

* Pat Field, 79, Australian politician, suicide.
* Paul Gondjout, 78, Gabonese politician.
* Lorrie Hunter, 90, New Zealand politician.
* Anna Palk, 48, English actress, cancer.
* Eric M. Rogers, 87, British physicist.
* Jurriaan Schrofer, 64, Dutch artist.
* Ivan Serov, 84, Russian intelligence officer, head of the KGB (1954–1958).
* Willem Winkelman, 102, Dutch Olympic track and field athlete (1908).

### 2

* Silvina Bullrich, 74, Argentine novelist, lung cancer.
* Bert Connelly, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Ludwig Franz, 67, German politician.
* Marion Rice Hart, 98, American athlete.
* Snooky Lanson, 76, American singer and television personality.
* Mildred Scott Olmsted, 99, American peace activist.

### 3

* Armand Apell, 85, French boxer.
* Bodheswaran, 88, Indian poet.
* Maurice Girodias, 71, French publisher, heart attack.
* Potsy Jones, 80, American football player.
* Vic Olsson, 86, New Zealand rower.

### 4

* Phil Boggs, 40, American Olympic diver (1976), lymphoma.
* Olive Ann Burns, 65, American novelist, heart failure.
* Beverly Grant, 53, American actress, cancer.
* Marshall Hall, 79, American mathematician.
* Sweeney Schriner, 78, Russian-born Canadian ice hockey player.
* Willi Soya, 54, German footballer.
* Nathaniel Wyeth, 78, American engineer and inventor.

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* Edith Bülbring, 86, German-English physiologist.
* Tom Curran, 79, American Olympic rower (1936).
* Eugene Guth, 84, Austrian-American physicist.
* Thistle Yolette Harris, 87, Australian botanist.
* Hellmut Wilhelm, 84, German-American Sinologist.

### 6

* William R. Higgins, 45, American colonel, torture murder. (death declared on this date).
* Alfred Maasik, 93, Russian-American runner.
* Georg Schmidt, 63, Austrian football manager.
* Angel Zamarripa, 77, Mexican artist, kidney failure.

### 7

* Don Bessent, 59, American baseball player, alcohol poisoning.
* Cazuza, 32, Brazilian musician, AIDS.
* Bill Cullen, 70, American television personality (I've Got a Secret), lung cancer.
* Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, 91, German interfaith priest.
* Pu Laldenga, 63, Indian politician, lung cancer.
* Tommy Pool, 55, American Olympic sport shooter (1964).

### 8

* Joe Appiah, 71, Ghanaian lawyer, politician and statesman.
* Richard Barry Bernstein, 66, American physical chemist, heart attack.
* Ivan Black, 77, Australian politician.
* R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr., 74, American baseball executive, cancer.
* Amélia Rey Colaço, 92, Portuguese actor.
* Howard Duff, 76, American actor, heart attack.
* Hans Faverey, 56, Dutch poet.
* John Galbally, 79, Australian politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Malcolm Hilton, 61, English cricketer.
* Robert Murzeau, 81, French actor.
* Aage Stentoft, 76, Danish composer.
* George Edward Wheeler, 75, American Olympic gymnast (1936).
* David Widder, 92, American mathematician.

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* Hélène Boschi, 72, Swiss-French pianist.
* René Chanas, 76, French film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
* Sonny Dunham, 78, American trumpeter, cancer.
* Hertha Feist, 94, German expressionist dancer and choreographer.
* Vernon Simeon Plemion Grant, 88, American illustrator.
* Maire Gullichsen, 83, Finnish art collector.
* Ragnar Olsen, 76, Norwegian Olympic racewalker (1952).
* Horst Rittel, 59, German design theorist.
* Eric M. Warburg, 90, German banker.
* Friedrich Wegener, 83, German pathologist.

### 10

* Alain Chapel, 52, French chef, stroke.
* Vidya Dhar Mahajan, 77, Indian historian and political scientist.
* Donald McGavran, 92, Indian-American missiologist.
* Sergei Rudenko, 85, Soviet general.
* Alfred Ryan, 86, Australian footballer and cricket player.

### 11

* Ignacio Aguirre, 89, Mexican painter and engraver.
* Steve Rabinovitch, 47, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1960).
* Earl Stewart, 68, American golfer.
* George Watts, 75, American football player.
* Sun Yu, 90, Chinese film director.

### 12

* Bill Burrud, 65, American child actor and television host, heart attack.
* Yang Chin-hu, 91, Taiwanese politician.
* Savkuz Dzarasov, 60, Soviet wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Joan Whitney Kramer, 76, American musician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Paul Reps, 94, American poet.
* João Saldanha, 73, Brazilian football coach.

### 13

* Alaattin Baydar, 88-89, Turkish footballer.
* George L. Mabry Jr., 72, American general, prostate cancer.
* Lois Moran, 81, American actress, cancer.
* Laura Perls, 84, German psychologist.

### 14

* Ralph Humphrey, 58, American painter.
* Philip Leacock, 72, English filmmaker.
* Diego Ordóñez, 86, Spanish Olympic sprinter (1920, 1924, 1928).
* Walter Sedlmayr, 64, German actor, murdered.

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* Oleg Kagan, 43, Soviet violinist, cancer.
* Poul Larsen, 73, Danish canoeist and Olympian.
* Alison Leggatt, 86, English actress.
* Margaret Lockwood, 73, English actress, cirrhosis.
* Alexandre Pawlisiak, 77, French racing cyclist.
* Omar Abu Risha, 80, Syrian diplomat and poet.
* Enn Roos, 81, Soviet sculptor.
* Trouble T Roy, 22, American hip hop dancer, injuries sustained from a fall.
* Bud Thackery, 87, American cinematographer.
* Zaim Topčić, 70, Yugoslav novelist.
* Wilhelm Vorwerg, 90, German actor and art director.

### 16

* Tomás Blanco, 79, Spanish actor.
* Mogens Fog, 86, Danish politician.
* Mikhail Matusovsky, 74, Soviet poet.
* Miguel Muñoz, 68, Spanish footballer, internal bleeding.
* Valentin Pikul, 62, Soviet novelist, heart attack.
* Sidney Torch, 82, British musician, suicide by drug overdose.

### 17

* Bernard Cowan, 68, Canadian actor and television producer.
* Lidiya Ginzburg, 88, Soviet literary critic.
* Guglielmo Giovannini, 64, Italian footballer.
* Wilf Grant, 69, English footballer.
* Edward A. Murphy, Jr., 72, American aerospace engineer, namesake of Murphy's law.

### 18

* Gerry Boulet, 44, Canadian singer, cancer.
* Yves Chaland, 33, French cartoonist, traffic collision.
* André Chastel, 77, French art historian.
* Georges Dargaud, 79, French publisher.
* Roy Fagan, 84, Australian politician.
* Karl Menninger, 96, American psychiatrist, abdominal cancer.
* Yun Po-sun, 92, South Korean politician, president (1960–1962), diabetes.
* Johnny Wayne, 72, Canadian comedian, brain cancer.
* Štefan Čambal, 81, Czechoslovak football player.

### 19

* Egil Aarvik, 77, Norwegian politician.
* Helmut Becker, 63, German viticulturist.
* Georgi Burkov, 57, Soviet actor, thrombosis.
* Daniel du Janerand, 71, French painter, muralist, and book illustrator.
* Gusman Kosanov, 55, Soviet Olympic sprinter (1960, 1964), suicide.
* Eddie Quillan, 83, American actor, cancer.

### 20

* Auguste Denise, 84, Ivorian politician and Head of state.
* Sergei Parajanov, 66, Soviet filmmaker, cancer.
* Klara Sierońska-Kostrzewa, 76, Polish Olympic gymnast (1936).
* Bruno Splieth, 73, German sailor.

### 21

* Heitor Canalli, 80, Brazilian football player.
* Sacha Pitoëff, 70, Swiss actor.
* Stanley Shapiro, 65, American screenwriter.
* P. R. Shyamala, 59, Indian novelist.
* Joe Turner, 82, American pianist, heart attack.
* Rich Vogler, 39, American racing driver, racing collision.

### 22

* Ray Mawby, 68, British politician.
* Preben Neergaard, 70, Danish actor.
* Manuel Puig, 57, Argentine novelist, heart attack.
* Eduard Streltsov, 53, Soviet footballer, laryngeal cancer.

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* Otto Ambros, 89, German chemist and war criminal during World War II.
* Georges Flamant, 86, French film actor.
* Pierre Gandon, 91, French illustrator and engraver.
* James D. Hart, 79, American literary scholar, brain cancer.
* Maxwell Newton, 61, Australian publisher.
* Bert Sommer, 41, American singer and actor, respiratory illness.
* Kenjiro Takayanagi, 91, Japanese engineer and television pioneer, pneumonia.

### 24

* Michel Beaune, 56, French actor, cancer.
* Alan John Clarke, 54, English filmmaker, lung cancer.
* Coen Dillen, 63, Dutch football player, heart attack.
* Pasquale Fornara, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
* Freddie Tavares, 77, American designer, engineer, and musician.
* Arno Arthur Wachmann, 88, German astronomer.
* Andy Woehr, 94, American baseball player.

### 25

* Jean Fourastié, 83, French civil servant, economist, and intellectual.
* Winefreda Geonzon, 48, Filipino lawyer, cancer.
* Sam Grainger, 60, American comic book artist (Marvel Comics).
* Kashim Ibrahim, 80, Nigerian politician.
* Alfredo Pián, 77, Argentine racing driver.
* S. A. Rahman, 87, Pakistani judge.
* Paul Shannon, 80, American radio and television announcer, brain cancer.
* Kuzman Sotirović, 81, Yugoslav footballer.

### 26

* Leo Duyndam, 42, Dutch road bicycle racer, heart attack.
* Brent Mydland, 37, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead), drug overdose.
* Albert Rose, 80, American physicist, lung cancer.
* Giorgio Scarlatti, 68, Italian racing driver.
* John Sylvester, 85-86, American naval admiral.

### 27

* Elizabeth Allan, 80, English actress.
* Ernest Archer, 80, British art director.
* Bobby Day, 60, American singer ("Rockin' Robin"), prostate cancer.
* Jimmy De Sana, 40, American artist, AIDS.
* Ed Emshwiller, 65, American visual artist, cancer.
* Maxine Gates, 73, American actress, respiratory failure.

### 28

* Red Barrett, 75, American baseball player.
* Maurice Braddell, 89, English actor and author.
* Jill Esmond, 82, English actress.
* Lancelot Layne, Trinidad and Tobago musician.

### 29

* Georges Conchon, 65, French writer.
* Herbert O. Fisher, 81, American aviation executive, heart failure.
* Bruno Kreisky, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor (1970–1983), heart failure.
* Cai Qiao, 92, Chinese physiologist and physician.
* Arthur Samuel, 88, American computer scientist.

### 30

* Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, 93, British diplomat.
* Launcelot Fleming, 83, British Anglican prelate.
* Ian Gow, 53, British politician, car bombing.
* Gustaf Jonsson, 87, Swedish skier.
* Karl Weber, 74, American actor, heart failure.

### 31

* Lowell Davidson, 48, American pianist, tuberculosis.
* Nicolae Giosan, 68, Romanian agricultural engineer and politician.
* Albert Leduc, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Wilhelm Nowack, 92, German economist and politician.
* Lovro Radonjić, 62, Yugoslav water polo player and Olympic medalist.
* Fernando Sancho, 74, Spanish actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Ludger Westrick, 95, German politician.