The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1990
1 Buster Adams, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies), heart failure. Afanasy Beloborodov, 87, Soviet general. John Wesley Burgess, 83, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1963). Arnoldo Gabaldón, 81, Venezuelan physician and politician. Geir Hallgrímsson, 64, Icelandic politician, prime minister (1974–1978). Stefán Kristjánsson, 66, Icelandic Olympic skier (1952, 1956). Alex Levinsky, 80, American-born Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks). Les Ramsay, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks). Edwin O. Reischauer, 79, American diplomat, hepatitis C. Derviš Sušić, 65, Yugoslav writer.
2 Tom Atkinson, 59, English cricketer. John Bowlby, 83, British psychologist. Sári Bíró, 83, Hungarian pianist. Robert Holmes à Court, 53, South African-born Australian businessman, heart attack. Marcus Cunliffe, 68, British scholar. Erich Herker, 84, German Olympic ice hockey player (1932). Jože Javoršek, 69, Yugoslav and Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, and essayist. Robert Francis Joyce, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate. Léon van Hove, 66, Belgian physicist. Mark Mauldin, 75, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
3 Slava Amiragov, 64, Soviet Belarusian Olympic rower (1952, 1956). Marshall Bridges, 59, American baseball player, cancer. Fappiano, 13, American thoroughbred racehorse. Mieczysław Fogg, 89, Polish singer. Betty Glamann, 67, American harpist. The Minstrel, 16, Canadian-Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel, 80, British socialite, spouse of the prime minister (1963–1964). Victor Hooper, 85, Australian cricketer. Eugene Martynov, 42, Soviet singer, heart failure. Wang Zhenhe, 49, Taiwanese writer. Chen Tien, 67, Malaysian politician, Central Committee member of the Malayan Communist Party.
4 Ignacio Luis Arcaya, 78, Venezuelan lawyer and politician. Lawrence A. Cremin, 64, American education historian, heart attack. Irene Dunne, 91, American actress (The Awful Truth), cardioplegia, heart attack. Turan Dursun, 55-56, Turkish author and critic of Islam, shot. Giuseppe Gobbato, 86, Italian Olympic racewalker (1936). Willy Heldenstein, 94, Luxembourgian Olympic bobsledder (1928). Alceo Lipizer, 69, Italian footballer. Alden Whitman, 76, American journalist, stroke.
5 Allen Adams, 44, Scottish politician, cerebral hemorrhage. Beppo Brem, 84, West German actor, lung cancer. Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, 82, British colonial administrator. Alessandro Ciceri, 58, Italian Olympic sport shooter (1956). Roderic Alfred Gregory, 76, British physiologist. Jack Hildyard, 82, British cinematographer (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Geese, Topaz), Oscar winner (1958). Graham Hough, 82, English literary critic. Charlie Huneke, 69, American football player. Jerry Iger, 87, American cartoonist (Eisner & Iger). Ivan Mihailov, 94, Yugoslav and Bulgarian revolutionary. Vasile Moldovan, 79, Romanian Olympic gymnast (1936). John Naioti, 68, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). Karl-Heinz Peters, 87, German film actor. Frank Waldman, 71, American screenwriter.
6 Madaram Brahma, 87, Indian poet and dramatist. Issan Dorsey, 57, American Sōtō Zen monk and teacher, AIDS-related complications. Tom Fogerty, 48, American guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival), AIDS-related tuberculosis. Francisco Eppens Helgueras, 77, Mexican artist. Jack Howells, 77, Welsh filmmaker. Sir Len Hutton, 74, English cricketer, complications from heart surgery. Beniamino Maggio, 83, Italian actor. Eiji Nakano, 85, Japanese actor, stomach cancer. Elias Nakhleh, 76-77, Israeli politician. Herbert Spiegelberg, 86, German-American philosopher, leukemia. Fernando Valenti, 63, American harpsichordist, heart attack. Al Veach, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
7 Prince Filiberto, Duke of Genoa, 95, Italian royal. Ahti Karjalainen, 67, Finnish politician, prime minister (1962–1963, 1970–1971), pancreatic cancer. Earle E. Partridge, 90, American general. Clärenore Stinnes, 89, German racing driver. A. J. P. Taylor, 84, British historian, Parkinson's disease.
8 Toon Duijnhouwer, 78, Dutch footballer. Gustav Gerhart, 68, Austrian Olympic football player (1948). Joe Gleason, 95, American baseball player (Washington Senators). Kathleen Gough, 65, British anthropologist, cancer. Dimitar Mutafchiev, 87, Bulgarian Olympic football player (1924). Sven Rosendahl, 77, Swedish journalist, novelist and short story writer. Boris Tenin, 85, Soviet actor. Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 85, British children's author and illustrator.
9 Nicola Abbagnano, 89, Italian philosopher. Molly Adair, 85, English actress. Louis Awad, 75, Egyptian intellectual and a writer. Doc Cramer, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers). Samuel Doe, 39, Liberian politician, president (since 1986), torture murder. Alexander Men, 55, Soviet theologian, murdered. George Sime, 75, Scottish Olympic field hockey player (1948). Anatoly Sofronov, 79, Soviet writer. Rimantas Stankevičius, 46, Lithuanian cosmonaut and pilot, plane crash. Hugh Sutherland, 83, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player (1932). Harvey Teno, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
10 Charles Coleman, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Catharose de Petri, 88, Dutch mystic and spiritual leader. Svend Madsen, 93, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920). Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow, 82, German flying ace during World War II. Zoltán Rozsnyai, 64, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.
11 F. F. Bruce, 79, Scottish biblical scholar. Cai Chang, 90, Chinese politician and women's rights activist. Theodore J. Conway, 81, American four-star general, commander STRICOM.GEN Theodore John Conway. Myrna Chang, 40, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed. Byron Eby, 85, American football player (Portsmouth Spartans). Julius Jacobsen, 75, Danish composer. Alois Kratzer, 83, German Olympic ski jumper (1928). Iris von Roten-Meyer, 73, Swiss journalist, suicide.
12 Irena Eichlerówna, 82, Polish actress. Archibald Howie, 82, Canadian Olympic sailor (1952). Ivica Kurtini, 68, Yugoslav Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952). Jim Romano, 63, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Nancy Ryles, 52, American politician, cancer. Athene Seyler, 101, English actress. Charles Walker, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
13 Adda Husted Andersen, 92, Danish-American jeweler, silversmith, and metalsmith. George Hardy, 78, Canadian-American labor leader, respiratory failure. Marya Mannes, 85, American writer and critic. Giancarlo Pajetta, 79, Italian politician. Samuel S. Stratton, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1989).
14 Nazrul Islam Babu, 41, Bangladeshi lyricist. Wim De Craene, 40, Belgian singer, suicide by drug overdose. Varananda Dhavaj, 70, Thai royal. Leonid Ivanov, 69, Soviet Olympic footballer (1952). Lőrinc Jankovich, 82, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1936). Lotus Long, 81, American actress.
15 Ken Domon, 80, Japanese photographer. Mick Donohue, 73, Australian rules footballer. Valentin Filatyev, 60, Soviet cosmonaut. David Lester, 74, American biochemist. Hans Malmstrøm, 77, Danish Olympic swimmer (1936). Max Schäfer, 83, German football player. Gerard Veldkamp, 69, Dutch politician.
16 James Francis Carney, 75, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, cancer. Jesús Evaristo Casariego, 76, Spanish writer and publisher. Steve Condos, 71, American tap dancer, heart attack. Semyon Kurkotkin, 73, Soviet general. Oscarino Costa Silva, 83, Brazilian football player. Harold Palin, 74, English rugby player. John Staton, 88, American football player and businessman. Ron Withnall, 75, Australian politician.
17 Lucien Barrière, 67, French businessman, cardiac arrest. Laidley Burge, 93, Australian rugby league player. Oliver Butterworth, 75, American author, cancer. J. F. Gates Clarke, 85, Canadian-American entomologist. Jackie Cox, 78-79, Scottish footballer. Janet Hill Gordon, 75, American politician. Joseph T. Maras, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), and coach. Angelo Schiavio, 84, Italian football player and Olympian (1928). Loretta Clemens Tupper, 84, American actress and singer.
18 Gyula Décsi, 71, Hungarian politician and jurist Dinny Fagan, 84, Australian rules footballer. Richard Eric Holttum, 95, English botanist. Marjan Rožanc, 59, Yugoslav writer. Ed Sadowski, 73, American basketball player, cancer. Walter Thompson Welford, 74, British physicist.
19 Werner Janssen, 91, American conductor. Donal Keenan, 71, Irish Gaelic games administrator. Allan McKinnon, 73, Canadian politician, cancer. Ian Moir, 58, Australian rugby player. Hermes Pan, 80, American dancer and choreographer. Walter Tucker, 91, Canadian politician.
20 Rosa Balistreri, 63, Italian singer. Siegfried Behrend, 56, German classical guitarist and composer. Claude Colette, 61, French racing cyclist. Dick Gyselman, 82, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Lucien Konter, 65, Luxembourgish Olympic footballer (1948). Thomas McGrath, 73, American poet and screenwriter. Attilio Micheluzzi, 60, Italian comics artist. Jackie Moran, 67, American actor, lung cancer. Ed Robnett, 70, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). Robert Rodale, 60, American publishing executive, traffic collision.
21 Jacques-Laurent Bost, 74, French journalist, cancer. Jack Cockburn, 78, Australian rules footballer. Sumner Getchell, 83, American actor. Frans Herman, 63, Belgian Olympic runner (1952, 1956). Jack Hunter, 75, Australian rules footballer. Takis Kanellopoulos, 56, Greek filmmaker, heart attack. Alexander Konstantinopolsky, 80, Soviet chess player. Rosario Livatino, 37, Italian magistrate, murdered. Tufail Niazi, 73-74, Pakistani singer. Frank Quillen, 69, American football player. Charles Calvin Rogers, 61, American Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, prostate cancer. Robert L. Thorndike, 79, American psychologist, heart failure. John Wallace, 87, American Olympic sailor (1936). Xu Xiangqian, 88, Chinese general.
22 Raj Bahadur, 78, Indian politician. John A. Danaher, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1939–1945). Michael Swann, 70, British microbiologist. Len Szafaryn, 62, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers).
23 Pål Angell-Hansen, 65, Norwegian footballer. Hilliard Beyerstein, 82, Canadian politician. William James Broughton, 77, New Zealand jockey. Harry Z. Isaacs, 86, American businessman. László Ladány, 76, Hungarian jesuit, China watcher, and author.
24 Tim Archer, 93, Australian rules footballer. Kang Joon-Ho, 62, South Korean boxer and Olympic medalist (1952). Zlata Kolarić-Kišur, 95, Yugoslav writer. Àngel Sabata, 79, Spanish Olympic water polo player (1928, 1948). Ladislas Smid, 75, Hungarian-French footballer. Johnny Werts, 92, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
25 Wilfred Burns, 73, British composer of film scores. Stellio Lorenzi, 69, French screenwriter, cancer. Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, 85, Canadian politician, stroke. Sabyasachi Mukharji, 63, Indian judge and Chief Justice, heart attack. Kaharuddin Nasution, 65, Indonesian politician. Prafulla Chandra Sen, 93, Indian politician. Giuseppe Valle, 86, Italian Olympic water polo player (1924). Vjekoslav Vrančić, 86, Croatian politician.
26 Hiram Abas, 57-58, Turkish intelligence official, murdered. Lothar Collatz, 80, German mathematician, heart attack. Cecil Gray, 88, Australian cricketer.