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.

1

 * Michel Arnaud, 74, French general, heart attack.
 * Roar Berthelsen, 55, Norwegian long jumper.
 * Carl Ekern, 36, American football player, 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.
 * Adonias Filho, 74, Brazilian writer.
 * Al Guokas, 64, American basketball player.
 * 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.
 * Thomas Dunne, 64, Irish politician.
 * M. Ranga Rao, 58, Indian composer, cancer.
 * Wilbur Schwartz, 72, American musician.
 * George Stavrinos, 42, Greek-American illustrator, complications of pneumonia.
 * Paul Watkins, 40, American cult member (Manson Family), leukemia.

4

 * Ian Allison, 81, Canadian basketball player.
 * As'ad Syamsul Arifin, 92-93, Indonesian ulama.
 * Mathias Goeritz, 75, German-Mexican artist.
 * 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).
 * 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.
 * Ellis T. Johnson, 79, American multi-sport athlete and coach.
 * Kazimierz Kaszuba, 60, Polish football player.
 * 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.
 * Gordon Bunshaft, 81, American architect.
 * George Dixon, 56, Canadian football player.
 * Luis Lucchetti, 87, Argentine Olympic fencer (1928).
 * 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

 * Andrzej Dobrowolski, 68, Polish composer.
 * Wallace Douglas, 78, Canadian producer, director and actor.
 * Joseph H. Harper, 89, United States Army officer.
 * 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.
 * Art Van Tone, 71, American gridiron football player.

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.
 * 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.

12

 * Paul Cuba, 82, American football player.
 * Ethyl Eichelberger, 45, American drag queen, suicide by exsanguination.
 * 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 basketball player.
 * 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, Czechoslovakian 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, 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.
 * Viktor Tsoi, 28, Soviet singer, traffic collision.
 * Louis Vola, 88, French bassist.

16

 * Pierre Bonnet, 92, French arachnologist.
 * Bobby Gordon, 54, American football player.
 * Pat O'Connor, 65, New Zealand wrestler, cancer.
 * Ernest Pogosyants, 55, Soviet chess player.
 * Ricardo Saprissa, 89, Salvadoran-Costa Rican football player.

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.
 * 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.
 * Graham Williams, 45, English television producer, shot.

18

 * Grethe Ingmann, 52, Danish singer, cancer.
 * József Kovács, 79, Hungarian hurdler.
 * 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 wrestler.
 * 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.
 * Bill Curry, 54, English football player.
 * Rudolf Gellesch, 76, German football player.
 * Maurice Gendron, 69, French cellist.
 * Ray Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.
 * 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.
 * Bill Lasley, 88, American baseball player.
 * Bob Uhl, 76, American baseball player.

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.
 * Yutaka Kanai, 30, Japanese Olympic runner (1984), accident.
 * 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.
 * Mickey Witek, 74, American baseball player.

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.
 * 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, cancer.

27

 * Ed Balatti, 66, American football player.
 * Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 84, Australian historian.
 * Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma.
 * Ramón Piñeiro López, 75, Spanish writer and politician.
 * Armin Scheurer, 72, Swiss athlete and football coach.
 * Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, American blues musician and guitarist, helicopter crash.

28

 * Sumitra Devi, 67, Indian actress.
 * Larry Jackson, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
 * Richard Lauffen, 83, German actor.
 * Edmund H. North, 79, American screenwriter.
 * Rosely Roth, 31, Brazilian LGBT activist, suicide.
 * Paul Rowe, 73, Canadian football player.
 * Victorio Spinetto, 79, Argentine footballer.
 * Eva Stiberg, 69, Swedish actress.
 * Willy Vandersteen, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Spike and Suzy).

29

 * Luigi Beccali, 82, Italian Olympic runner (1932).
 * Manly Palmer Hall, 89, Canadian philosopher.
 * Chin Fung Kee, 70, Malaysian civil engineer.
 * Solomon Mikhlin, 82, Soviet mathematician, stroke.
 * Sayyid Shahab al-DIn Mar'ashi Najafi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
 * Juozas Vinča, 84, Lithuanian-American boxer and Olympian.

30

 * Lou Garland, 85, American baseball player.
 * Edmund G. Love, 78, American author, heart attack.
 * Ch'ien Mu, 95, Chinese-Taiwanese historian and philosopher.
 * Bernard D. H. Tellegen, 90, Dutch electrical engineer.

31

 * Bert Assirati, 82, English professional wrestler, bladder cancer.
 * Nathaniel Clifton, 67, American basketball player.
 * James H. Donovan, 66, American politician, colon cancer.
 * Henry From, 64, Danish footballer.
 * Frank Hindman Golay, 75, American economist.
 * Johnny Lindsay, 81, South African cricket player.
 * Jack C. Rowan, 79, American football coach.
 * Sergey Volkov, 41, Soviet figure skater and Olympian, stomach cancer.