Deaths in June 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1990

1 Eric Barker, 78, English actor (Carry On). Wilhelm Borchert, 83, German actor. Dow Hover, 89, American executioner, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Wieslaw Kielar, 70, Polish filmmaker and author.

2 Ivor Aldridge, 90, Australian rules footballer. Claude Chabauty, 80, French mathematician. Walter Davis, 57, American pianist, liver and kidney disease. Sir Rex Harrison, 82, English actor (My Fair Lady, Doctor Dolittle, Cleopatra), Oscar winner (1965), pancreatic cancer. Shriram Sharma, 78, Indian author and freedom fighter.

3 Tom Brown, 77, American actor, lung cancer. Cécile Lesprit-Poirier, 84, French Olympic diver (1936). Robert Noyce, 62, American physicist and entrepreneur (Intel), heart attack. Richard Sohl, 37, American musician, heart attack. Juan Rovira Tarazona, 60, Spanish politician. Aino Taube, 77, Swedish actress.

4 Stiv Bators, 40, American punk rock vocalist and guitarist, traffic collision. Yulian Bromley, 69, Soviet anthropologist. René Desroches, 84, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1936). Robert Edwards, 85, British politician. Jack Gilford, 81, American actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Catch-22), stomach cancer. Ivor Raymonde, 63, British musician. Antônio da Silveira, 84, Brazilian Olympic sports shooter (1932). Roma Wagner, 77, Austrian Olympic swimmer (1936).

5 Abdul Aziz, 77, Sri Lankan politician. Luís Viana Filho, 82, Brazilian politician. Jim Hodder, 42, American drummer (Steely Dan), drowned. Vasily Kuznetsov, 89, Soviet politician, acting head of state (1982–1983, 1984, 1985). Charles Lambert, 58, French Olympic water polo player (1960). Fred Stenson, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962–1965). Peter Throckmorton, 61, American archaeologist and photojournalist.

6 Albert Alderman, 82, English cricketer and footballer. Aurora de Albornoz, 64, Spanish academic, cerebral hemorrhage. Mato Dukovac, 71, Yugoslav flying ace during World War II . Marcel Grignon, 75, French cinematographer. Sobir Kamolov, 80, Soviet politician. Butch Lindley, 42, American racing driver, racing accident. Joe Loss, 80, British musician. Fyodor Remezov, 93, Soviet general.

7 Robert Perceval Armitage, 83, British colonial administrator. Barbara Baxley, 67, American actress and singer, heart attack. Lou Blackburn, 67, American trombonist. Mary Katherine Campbell, 84, American beauty pageant contestant. Adrian Gore, 90, British army officer and cricketer. Alfredo Poveda, 64, Ecuadorian politician, interim president (1976–1979), heart attack. Moh Yoon-sook, 80, South Korean poet. Petar Šegvić, 59, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1952).

8 Rafael Cabrera, 65, Cuban baseball player. José Figueres Ferrer, 83, Costa Rican politician, president (1948–1949, 1953–1958, 1970–1974). Herbie Matthews, 76, Australian rules football player. Neb Stewart, 72, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Remy Van Lierde, 74, Belgian flying ace during World War II.

9 Asad Bhopali, 68, Indian lyricist and poet. James Carreras, 81, British film producer. Charles Cumont, 88, Belgian general. Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher, 87, British politician. John Holland, 63, New Zealand Olympic hurdler (1948, 1952), cancer. Angus McBean, 86, Welsh photographer.

10 Russel Carrero, 39, Nicaraguan Olympic sprinter (1972). André Conrardy, 62, Luxembourgian Olympic canoeist (1960). Ludvig Holm-Olsen, 76, Norwegian linguist. Fritz Huhn, 89, German Olympic high jumper (1928). Jack Lyngcoln, 80, Australian rules footballer. Hanna Olsen, 100, Swedish Olympic fencer (1924, 1928). Hubert Rostaing, 71, French musician.

11 Vicente Aguirre, 89, Argentine football player. Irakly Andronikov, 81, Soviet and Russian literature historian and media personality. Willy Bührer, 78, Swiss Olympic athlete (1936). Seosamh Mac Grianna, 89, Irish writer. Bram Kool, 53, Dutch racing cyclist. John H. Manley, 82, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project). Clyde McCoy, 86, American trumpeter, Alzheimer's disease. Oldřich Nejedlý, 80, Czechoslovak footballer. Bert Norris, 91, English Olympic runner (1936). Joan Stevens, 81, New Zealand academic. Isaac D. White, 89, American general. Vaso Čubrilović, 93, Yugoslav scholar and politician.

12 Solomon Freehof, 97, British-American rabbi and scholar. Glen Gorbous, 59, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs, Philadelphia Phillies). Moushegh Ishkhan, 77, Armenian diasporan poet, writer and educator. Gerald Marchesi, 61, Italian-Australian football player. George McNamara, 89, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Georg Meistermann, 78, German painter. Terence O'Neill, 75, Northern Irish politician, prime minister (1963–1969), cancer. Billy Taylor, 71, Canadian ice hockey player. Jim Walkup, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Willy Ørskov, 69, Danish sculptor.

13 Antony Andrewes, 80, English historian. Barbara Claßen, 32, German Olympic judoka (1988), suicide. Gidsken Jakobsen, 81, Norwegian aviator. Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, 85, Pakistani politician, first lady (1947–1951). Michiyo Kogure, 72, Japanese actress. Frank McGuren, 80, Australian politician. Thomas Ponsonby, 3rd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 59, British politician.

14 Erna Berger, 89, German singer. Ted Buckle, 65, English football player. Jay Gorney, 93, American songwriter. Ralf Liivar, 87, Estonian Olympic football player (1924). Chet McNabb, 69, American basketball player. Roy Nutt, 59, American computer engineer, lung cancer. Jean-François Pintat, 66, French politician. Heinrich Reinhardt, 87, German-Argentine chess player.

15 Nobuo Arai, 80–81, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1928). St. Clair Drake, 79, American sociologist. Raymond Huntley, 86, English actor. Cynthia Irwin-Williams, 54, American archaeologist. Bucky Jacobs, 77, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Halvor Kongsjorden, 78, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter (1948). Józef Machnik, 58, Polish footballer. George Nakashima, 85, American furniture designer. Leonard Sachs, 80, South African-British actor, kidney failure. Marjorie van Vliet, 67, American teacher and pilot, plane crash.

16 Herman S. Bloch, 78, American chemist, heart attack. Tom Chilvers, 71, Australian rugby league player. Thomas George Cowling, 83, English astronomer. Dennis Dyer, 76, South African cricket player. Martin Gallagher, 60, Australian rugby league player. Truus Kerkmeester, 68, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1936). Megan Leigh, 26, American pornographic actress, suicide by gunshot. Jack K. McFall, 84, American diplomat. Feliciano Monti, 87, Italian Olympic footballer (1924). Zoltan Sztehlo, 68, Hungarian-Canadian Olympic equestrian (1968). Dame Eva Turner, 98, English singer. Ruedi Walter, 73, Swiss actor and comedian, complications from surgery.

17 Konrad Bauer, 71, German flying ace during World War II. Henry T. Bream, 90, American baseball player. Mark Americus Costantino, 70, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York). Dick Elffers, 79, Dutch artist. Gervais Gindre, 62, French Olympic cross-country skier (1952). Paul Giovanni, 57, American playwright and composer, AIDS. Bob Hamerton, 79, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1936). Aleksandrs Leimanis, 76, Soviet film director. Francisco Solano Patiño, 66–67, Paraguayan football player. Ronald F. Tylecote, 74, British archaeologist.

18 Arthur Bryse, 81, Australian rules footballer. Barbara Cason, 61, American actress, heart attack. Arran Hoffmann, 87, German Olympic sports shooter (1936). Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz, 91, Polish Olympic equestrian (1936). Ronald Lewis, 80, British politician. Rolf Stranger, 99, Norwegian politician. John Edward Swindler, 46, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution. Barbra Walz, 39, American fashion photographer, breast cancer.

19 Isabella Smith Andrews, 84, Scottish-born New Zealand playwright. Charles R. Farnsley, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967), Alzheimer's disease. Aleksandr Goncharov, 31, Soviet field hockey player and Olympian (1980). Melvin Mayfield, 71, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. Børge Monberg, 84, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1928). Steen Eiler Rasmussen, 92, Danish architect. Jack Sullivan, 71, Australian rules footballer. Karel Sys, 76, Belgian boxer. Bill Westwick, 81, Canadian sports journalist. G. Yogasangari, Sri Lankan politician, shot.

20 Ina Balin, 52, American actress (From the Terrace), pulmonary hypertension. Mario Dal Fabbro, 76, Italian American artist and author. Tom Hopkinson, 85, British journalist. Levin Kipnis, 95, Russian-Israeli author. James Nguyễn Ngọc Quang, 80, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cần Thơ (1965–1990). Kōsaku Yosida, 81, Japanese mathematician.

21 Cedric Belfrage, 85, English journalist. Neil Boyd, 75, Australian rules footballer. June Christy, 64, American singer, kidney failure. Eliahu Eilat, 86, Soviet-Israeli diplomat. Ross Munro, 76, Canadian war correspondent during World War II. Tony Sarausky, 77, American football player (New York Giants). Eino Valle, 58 Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1964). Margaret J. Winkler, 95, American animation producer. Zheng Yanfen, 88, Taiwanese politician, cerebral hemorrhage.

22 Norm Duncan, 67, Australian rules footballer. Ilya Frank, 81, Soviet nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958). Elizabeth Harwood, 52, English singer, cancer. Binod Kanungo, 78, Indian author, freedom fighter, and encyclopedia compiler. Mollie Moon, 82, American civil rights activist.Mollie Moon, Founding Head of the Urban League Guild' Dies Joseph Murumbi, 79, Kenyan politician. Sabeena Rafi, 71, Indian literary critic. Steve Stevens, 87, Australian rules footballer.

23 Harindranath Chattopadhyay, 92, Indian politician, actor and playwright, cardiac arrest. Frank Gatliff, 62, Australian-English actor. Wim Kat, 85, Dutch Olympic runner (1924). Ellis Marcus, 72, American television writer, heart attack. Hermann Rahn, 77, American physiologist. Matthew Ward, 39, American translator, AIDS.

24 Marvin Burns, 61, American Olympic water polo player (1952, 1960). Germán Suárez Flamerich, 83, Venezuelan politician, president (1950–1952). Sean Hughes, 44, British history teacher and politician, cancer. William Kneale, 84, English logician. Paul Lindemann, 72, American basketball player, Goodpasture syndrome.

25 Jorge Alcalde, 78, Peruvian Olympic footballer (1936). Bizunesh Bekele, 53–54, Ethiopian singer. Sydney Boehm, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia. Robert Carney, 95, American naval admiral, cardiac arrest. Bob Garner, 55, American football player (Los Angeles Chargers, Oakland Raiders). Peggy Glanville-Hicks, 77, Australian composer. Melba Roy Mouton, 61, American mathematician, brain cancer. Yevgeniya Sechenova, 71, Soviet Olympic runner (1952). Ronald Gene Simmons, 49, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection. John Stoll, 76, British art director. Paul Stråhlman, 61, Finnish Olympic rower (1952).

26 Anni Blomqvist, 80, Finnish-Swedish novelist. Albert Byrd, 74, American Olympic racing cyclist (1936). Hubert Ebner, 84, German Olympic cyclist (1932). Doc Kauffman, 89, German-American electric guitar engineer. Wolfe Kelman, 66, Austrian-American rabbi, melanoma. J. C. R. Licklider, 75, American computer scientist, asthma. Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina, 72, Spanish author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays, cancer. Carroll Ringwalt, 82, American football player (Portsmouth Spartans, Frankford Yellow Jackets). William Robins, 83, English cricketer and British Army officer. Hans Schwerdtfeger, 87, German-Canadian-Australian mathematician.