Deaths in August 1990

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 Olympic long jumper (1960). Leo Des Vignes, Trinidadian politician, MP (since 1987).1990 - 20 Years Later: Anniversary of The Muslimeen Uprising Carl Ekern, 36, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), 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. André De Wulf, 67, Belgian Olympic bobsledder (1952). Adonias Filho, 74, Brazilian writer. Al Guokas, 64, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors). 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 (Boston Braves/Bees). Thomas Dunne, 64, Irish politician. Jeff Modesitt, 26, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers). M. Ranga Rao, 58, Indian composer, cancer. Wilbur Schwartz, 72, American musician. George Stavrinos, 42, Greek-American illustrator, complications of pneumonia. Mariano Trigo, 89, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1928). Paul Watkins, 40, American cult member (Manson Family), leukemia.

4 Ian Allison, 81, Canadian Olympic basketball player (1936). As'ad Syamsul Arifin, 92-93, Indonesian ulama. Mathias Goeritz, 75, German-Mexican artist. Chua Phung Kim, 51, Singaporean weightlifter and Olympian (1964). 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). Lajos Somló, 77, Hungarian Olympic triple jumper (1936). 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. Jack Hubbert, 74, Australian rules footballer. Ellis T. Johnson, 79, American multi-sport athlete and coach. Kazimierz Kaszuba, 60, Polish Olympic football player (1952). 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. Leo Bird, 81, Australian rules footballer. Gordon Bunshaft, 81, American architect. George Dixon, 56, Canadian football player. Luis Lucchetti, 87, Argentine Olympic fencer (1924, 1928, 1936). Magnús Pálsson, 77, Icelandic Olympic water polo player (1936). 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 Harry Bulpit, 95, Australian rules footballer. Andrzej Dobrowolski, 68, Polish composer. Wallace Douglas, 78, Canadian producer, director and actor. Joseph H. Harper, 89, United States Army officer. Laurier Régnier, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958–1962). 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. Max Starcevich, 78, American football player. Art Van Tone, 71, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions).

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 (Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers). 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. Florio Martel, 67, French Olympic field hockey player (1952). Guy le Mouroux, 72, French Olympic sailor (1952).

12 Paul Cuba, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Ethyl Eichelberger, 45, American drag queen, suicide by exsanguination. Les Harvey, 81, Australian rules footballer. 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 Olympic basketball player (1936). 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, Czech-American 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 and Olympian (1948), 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. Arthur McMahon, 69, Irish Olympic sports shooter (1968, 1972). Zdenko Švigelj, 87, Yugoslavian Olympic cross-country skier (1924). Viktor Tsoi, 28, Soviet singer, traffic collision. Louis Vola, 88, French bassist.

16 Frank Asling, 78, Australian rules footballer. Pierre Bonnet, 92, French arachnologist. Bobby Gordon, 54, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Houston Oilers). Louis Kozma, 52, Belgian Olympic swimmer (1956). Pat O'Connor, 65, New Zealand wrestler, cancer. Ernest Pogosyants, 55, Soviet chess player. Ricardo Saprissa, 89, Salvadoran-Costa Rican football player and tennis Olympian (1924).

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. James Thomas Foley, 80, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of New York). 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 (Washington Redskins). Graham Williams, 45, English television producer, shot.

18 Edmund Edwards, 80, Australian cricketer. Grethe Ingmann, 52, Danish singer, cancer. József Kovács, 79, Hungarian Olympic hurdler (1936). 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 Olympic wrestler (1932, 1936, 1948, 1952). Tony Mancini, 77, Canadian Olympic boxer (1932). Sandy Paris, 81, Scottish cricketer. 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. Larry Buhler, 73, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers). Howard Clifton, 51, American Olympic bobsledder (1968). Bill Curry, 54, English football player. Wiley Feagin, 52, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Washington Redskins). Rudolf Gellesch, 76, German football player and Olympian (1936). Maurice Gendron, 69, French cellist. Ray Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Rams, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cardinals). 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. Ed Glancy, 73, American basketball player. Bill Lasley, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). Bob Uhl, 76, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers).

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. Ron Clegg, 62, Australian rules footballer. Yutaka Kanai, 30, Japanese Olympic runner (1984), accident. Billy King, 70, Australian rules footballer. 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 (Toronto Maple Leafs). Jack Sanders, 86, Australian rules footballer. Mickey Witek, 74, American baseball player (New York Giants, New York Yankees).

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. Sture Ericson, 61, Swedish Olympic modern pentathlete (1960). Stuart Hamilton, 71, Australian rules footballer. 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 (Green Bay Packers), cancer.

27 Avdy Andresson, 90, Estonian Minister of War in exileNorthville Estonian Lutheran Cemetery Cumberland County, New Jersey Ed Balatti, 66, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 84, Australian historian. Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma. Ramón Piñeiro López, 75, Spanish writer and politician.