Deaths in April 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Benito Díaz, 91, Spanish footballer.
 * Lillian Miller, 92, American television personality.
 * Vince Pacewic, 69, American football player.
 * Carlos Peucelle, 81, Argentine footballer.
 * Bracha Tzfira, 79, Israeli musician and actress.
 * Charles Spain Verral, 85, Canadian author.
 * Russell Vis, 89, American wrestler.

2

 * Rafael Lorente de No, 87, Spanish neuroscientist.
 * Aldo Fabrizi, 84, Italian actor and film director.
 * Vanda Godsell, 67, English actress.
 * Peter Jones, 60, British broadcaster.
 * John Milton Roberts, 73, American anthropologist.

3

 * Edward Carlson, 78, American businessman, cancer.
 * Arthur Houghton, 83, American industrialist.
 * Clair Huffaker, 63, American screenwriter.
 * Willie Musarurwa, 62, Zimbabwean journalist.
 * Sloan Nibley, 81, American screenwriter.
 * Sarah Vaughan, 66, American singer, lung cancer.
 * Otha Wearin, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1939).

4

 * Leonid Dushkin, 79, Soviet rocket scientist.
 * Mark Fradkin, 75, Soviet composer.
 * Hubert Ogunde, 73, Nigerian theatre manager.
 * Bernhard Rensch, 90, German evolutionary biologist.
 * Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 90, American businessman and politician, secretary of commerce (1968–1969), cardiac arrest.
 * Paul V. Yoder, 81, American musician.

5

 * Carsten Byhring, 71, Norwegian actor, cancer.
 * A. B. Masilamani, 75, Indian baptist pastor and evangelist.
 * Louis Nelson, 87, American trombonist, traffic collision.
 * Lev Skvirsky, 86, Soviet general.

6

 * Robert Abernathy, 65, American science fiction author.
 * Peter Doherty, 76, Northern Irish football player.
 * James MacNabb, 88, British Olympic rower (1924).
 * Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, 85, Brazilian football playler.
 * B. T. Ranadive, 85, Indian politician.
 * Yevgeny Savitsky, 79, Soviet fighter ace during World War II.
 * Alfred Sohn-Rethel, 91, French-German economist.
 * Zeydin Yusup, 26, Uyghur independence activist, killed in action.

7

 * J. Broward Culpepper, 82, American academic.
 * Ronald Evans, 56, American astronaut (Apollo 17), heart attack.
 * Kristian Gestrin, 60, Finnish judge and politician.
 * Dick Lundy, 82, American animator.
 * Arthur B. Singer, 72, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.

8

 * Emerson Greenaway, 83, American librarian.
 * Herman Jessor, 95, American architect.
 * Bill Kelly, 91, American baseball player.
 * Hans Korte, 90, German general.
 * J. Kenneth Robinson, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1985), pancreatic cancer.
 * Bellan Roos, 88, Swedish actress.
 * Ernest Steward, 76-79, British cinematographer.
 * Ryan White, 18, American HIV/AIDS poster child, AIDS.
 * Zamazaan, 24-25, French Thoroughbred racehorse.

9

 * Aldo Bertocco, 78, Italian-French racing cyclist.
 * Jack Dermody, 79, Australian footballer.
 * John Henry Faulk, 76, American radio personality, cancer.
 * Yngve Lindegren, 77, Swedish football player.
 * James V. McConnell, 64, American zoologist, target of Ted Kaczynski.
 * Mikio Narita, 55, Japanese actor, linitis plastica.
 * Chips Sobek, 70, American basketball player.
 * Astrid Sommer, 83, Norwegian actress.

10

 * Margarete Adler, 94, Austrian Olympic swimmer and diver (1912, 1924).
 * Sir Hugh Trefusis Brassey, 74, British soldier and magistrate.
 * Fortune Gordien, 67, American Olympic discus thrower (1948, 1956).
 * Gerhard Schrader, 87, German chemist.

11

 * Harold Ballard, 86, Canadian sports executive.
 * Klaas Bolt, 63, Dutch organist.
 * Ronald Jasper, 72, British Anglican priest.
 * Ivar Lo-Johansson, 89, Swedish writer.
 * Margaret Carnegie Miller, 93, American heiress (Carnegie Corporation of New York).
 * Phyllis Munday, 95, Canadian mountaineer, explorer, and humanitarian.
 * Natalino Sapegno, 88, Literary critic and Italian academician.

12

 * John Brown, 74, New Zealand racing cyclist.
 * Geoffrey Harrison, 81, British diplomat.
 * Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, 89, Japanese poet and film critic.
 * Jef Lahaye, 57, Dutch racing cyclist.
 * Otto Neumann, 87, German Olympic runner (1928).
 * Johnny Reder, 80, Polish-American baseball player, heart disease.
 * Irving Terjesen, 75, American basketball player.
 * Luis Trenker, 97, Italian film producer, writer, actor, and Olympian.
 * Albert van Schendel, 77, Dutch racing cyclist.

13

 * Sundaram Balachander, 63, Indian musician and filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Ivan A. Elliott, 100, American lawyer and politician.
 * István Lovrics, 62, Hungarian basketball player.
 * Hans Reinerth, 89, German nazi archaeologist.
 * Ratomir Čabrić, 71, Yugoslav footballer.

14

 * Ahmed Balafrej, 81, Moroccan politician, prime minister (1958).
 * Mario Frustalupi, 47, Italian footballer, traffic collision.
 * Thurston Harris, 58, American singer, heart attack.
 * Martin Kessel, 89, German writer.
 * Alv Kjøs, 95, Norwegian politician.
 * Günther Krupkat, 84, German science fiction author.
 * Georges Lacombe, 87, French film director.
 * Flor Lambrechts, 80, Belgian footballer.
 * Doris Lusk, 73, New Zealand artist.
 * Olabisi Onabanjo, 63, Nigerian politician.
 * Marco Aurelio Robles, 84, Panamanian politician, president (1964–1968).
 * Sabicas, 78, Spanish guitarist, pneumonia.

15

 * Ulrich Becher, 80, German author.
 * Jock Bruce-Gardyne, 60, British politician, brain cancer.
 * Anna Carena, 91, Italian actress.
 * Greta Garbo, 84, Swedish-American actress (A Woman of Affairs, Anna Christie, Camille), pneumonia.
 * Helmut Lemke, 82, German politician.
 * Spark Matsunaga, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1977), prostate cancer.
 * Lawson P. Ramage, 81, American naval admiral, cancer.

16

 * Peter J. Grant, 46-47, British ornithologist.
 * Slim Keith, 72, American socialite and fashion icon, lung cancer.
 * Stephen Shadegg, 80, American political consultant, cancer.
 * Mary Talbot, 86, American entomologist.

17

 * Ralph Abernathy, 64, American civil rights activist, blood clot.
 * Joseph E. Dillon, 69, American politician.
 * Joseph McMillan Johnson, 77, American art director, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Jafta Masemola, 60, South African anti-apartheid activist, traffic collision.
 * Yuko Minamimura, 73, Japanese baseball player.
 * Karl Walz, 89, German politician.
 * Aubrey Williams, 63, Guyanese artist, cancer.

18

 * John Antonelli, 74, American baseball player.
 * Bob Drake, 70, American racing driver.
 * Gory Guerrero, 69, Mexican professional wrestler, liver failure.
 * Frédéric Rossif, 68, French film and television director.
 * Robert D. Webb, 87, American film director.

19

 * Dave Dexter, Jr., 74, American record producer.
 * Sergey Filippov, 77, Soviet and Russianactor and comedian, cancer.
 * John W. Schwada, 70, American academic.
 * Georgios Vikhos, 75, Greek Olympic sport shooter (1936, 1948).

20

 * Francis William Holbrooke Adams, 85, American lawyer and police commissioner.
 * N. H. Gibbs, 80, British academic.
 * Alex McCrindle, 78, Scottish actor.
 * George Reindorp, 78, British Anglican prelate.
 * Horst Sindermann, 74, East German politician.

21

 * Johnny Beazley, 71, American baseball player, cancer.
 * R. B. Braithwaite, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
 * Salvatore Cascino, 72, Italian Olympic racewalker (1948).
 * Erté, 97, Russian-born French artist.
 * Frank Lausche, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969), governor of Ohio (1945–1947, 1949–1957), heart failure.
 * Tadeusz Parpan, 70, Polish soccer player.
 * Bogusław Psujek, 33, Polish marathon runner, fall.

22

 * Bob Davies, 70, American basketball player.
 * Bud Maxwell, 77, Scottish footballer.
 * Rosalind Moss, 99, British Egyptologist.
 * Albert Salmi, 62, American actor, murder-suicide.
 * Gustaf Wejnarth, 87, Swedish Olympic runner (1924).
 * Verda Welcome, 83, American politician.

23

 * Paulette Goddard, 79, American actress, heart failure.
 * Mason Ellsworth Hale, 61, American lichenologist.
 * Vincent Joseph Hines, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Mary Turner Shaw, 84, Australian architect.
 * Charlie Wilson, 57, English career criminal (Great Train Robbery), shot.
 * Teodor Zaczyk, 90, Polish Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).

24

 * Vytautas Alantas, 87, Russian-American writer, journalist, and political ideologue.
 * Erik Eriksson, 75, Swedish footballer.
 * Endel Pärn, 76, Soviet actor and singer.
 * Kazem Rajavi, 56, Iranian human rights activist, shot.
 * Vladimir Saprykin, 73, Soviet Red Army officer and war hero.

25

 * Irving Fiske, 82, American playwright, stroke.
 * Dexter Gordon, 67, American jazz musician, kidney failure.
 * Rufus "Speedy" Jones, 53, American jazz drummer.
 * Fred Klein, 92, Dutch painter.
 * Bernard C. Schoenfeld, 82, American screenwriter.
 * Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr., 90, American diplomat.

26

 * Józef Kosacki, 81, Polish professor, engineer, and inventor.
 * Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, 38, Colombian guerrilla leader, shot.
 * Wesley Rose, 72, American record producer.
 * John J. Winkler, 46, American philologist and Benedictine monk, AIDS.

27

 * Tita Duran, 61, Filipino actress.
 * Vladimir Kanygin, 41, Russian middleweight weightlifter.
 * Alyce Mills, 91, American actress.
 * Malwa Singh, 44, Indian wrestler.
 * Bella Spewack, 91, Romanian-born American playwright.
 * Vladimir Stoychev, 98, Bulgarian general and equestrian.
 * Earl Wilson, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1959, 1961–1965).

28

 * Enrique Accorsi, 73, Chilean Olympic fencer (1948).
 * Edwina Dumm, 96-97, American cartoonist.
 * Peter Fuller, 42, British art critic, traffic collision.
 * Neil Watson, 84, New Zealand politician.

29

 * Enrique Almada, 55, Uruguayan actor and author, cancer.
 * Max Bense, 80, German philosopher.
 * Margaret Hance, 66, American politician, cancer.
 * Carl Hellmuth Hertz, 69, German physicist.
 * Sammy Lawhorn, 54, American blues guitarist.
 * Elise Constance Mourant, 68, New Zealand artist.
 * Ray Poat, 72, American baseball player.

30

 * Ernst Berndt, 74, Czechoslovak track and field athlete abd Olympian.
 * Ken Chisholm, 65, Scottish footballer.
 * Herbert Jankuhn, 84, German archaeologist.
 * Reidar Nyborg, 67, Norwegian Olympic skier (1948).
 * Angami Zapu Phizo, 85, Indian-British Naga nationalist.
 * Mario Pizziolo, 80, Italian footballer.
 * Joshua Prawer, 72, Polish-Israeli historian.
 * Paul Sears, 98, American ecologist.
 * Josef Velek, 50, Czechoslovak journalist, drowned.
 * Antoine Vitez, 59, French actor and theatre director.
 * Archie Wright, 65, Scottish football player.
 * Vasili Yermasov, 77, Soviet football player.
 * Mark Zborowski, 82, Soviet anthropologist and spy.