Deaths in February 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Gianfranco Contini, 78, Italian academic and philologist.
 * Lauritz Falk, 80, Swedish-Norwegian actor.
 * Peter Racine Fricker, 69, English composer, throat cancer.
 * Hassan Ibrahim, 73, Egyptian Air Force officer.
 * Yeghishe Derderian of Jerusalem, 78, Israeli Armenian patriarch (since 1960), heart attack.
 * Jadwiga Wajs, 78, Polish Olympic discus thrower (1932, 1936).

2

 * Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, 84, British Mistress of the Robes (since 1964).
 * Paul Ariste, 84, Soviet linguist.
 * Paul Arzens, 86, French industrial automotive designer.
 * Benedict Daswa, 43, South African educator, beaten to death.
 * Enrico De Pedis, 35, Italian gangster, homicide.
 * Joel Fluellen, 82, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
 * Mel Lewis, 60, American drummer, skin cancer.
 * Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, 79, Norwegian fiddler.
 * Hans Schumm, 93, German-American actor, heart failure.
 * Don Welsh, 78, English football player.

3

 * Erv Kantlehner, 97, American baseball player.
 * Willibald Kirbes, 87, Austrian football player.
 * Jane Novak, 94, American actress, stroke.
 * Pa Tepaeru Terito Ariki, 66, Cook Islander lyricist ("Te Atua Mou E").
 * Marcel Thévenet, 74, French weightlifter and Olympian.

4

 * Zé Beto, 29, Portuguese footballer, traffic collision.
 * Jean Galloway Bissell, 53, American judge, cancer.
 * Leonard J. Fick, 74, American academic, heart disease.
 * Maria Gambarelli, 89, Italian-American actress and dancer.
 * Berta Karlik, 86, Austrian physicist.
 * Archibald Ross Lewis, 75, American historian.
 * Kate Simon, 77, Polish-American writer.
 * Whipper Billy Watson, 72, Canadian wrestler and trainer.

5

 * W. W. Bartley III, 55, American philosopher, bladder cancer.
 * Edgar Herschler, 71, American politician, governor of Wyoming (1975–1987), cancer.
 * Père Marie-Benoît, 94, French humanitarian.
 * Joseph Mauclair, 83, French road bicycle racer from 1927 to 1938.
 * Joseph J. Nazzaro, 76, American Air Force general, cancer.
 * King Perry, 75, American musician.

6

 * Bin Akao, 91, Japanese politician, heart failure.
 * Jeannine Auboyer, 77, French museum curator.
 * Bernard Bernstein, 81, American economist, cardiac arrest.
 * John Merivale, 72, Canadian-British actor, kidney failure.
 * Jimmy Van Heusen, 77, American composer, complications from a stroke.

7

 * Thomas Clark, 83, American Olympic rower (1932).
 * Tony Fomison, 50, New Zealand artist.
 * Max Koecher, 66, German mathematician.
 * Alan Perlis, 67, American computer scientist, heart attack.
 * Alfredo M. Santos, 84, Filipino general.

8

 * Rhys Adrian, 61, British playwright and screenwriter.
 * Bernice Carey, 78-79, American mystery writer.
 * Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., 77, American painter and musician, father of Muhammad Ali, heart attack.
 * George de Mestral, 82, Swiss electrical engineer and inventor of velcro.
 * Xu Deheng, 99, Chinese politician.
 * Katalin Karády, 79, Hungarian actress and singer.
 * Pete Kmetovic, 70, American football player.
 * Charles Maclean, Baron Maclean, 73, British hereditary peer.
 * Del Shannon, 55, American musician, suicide by gunshot.
 * Ernest William Titterton, 73, British nuclear physicist, pulmonary embolism.

9

 * James Fleming Gordon, 71, American judge.
 * Ilse Hollweg, 67, German opera singer.
 * Saroj Mukherjee, 79, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
 * John Poelker, 76, American politician.
 * Jan Wojnowski, 43, Polish weightlifter and Olympian.

10

 * Clara González, 88, Panamanian feminist, judge, and activist.
 * Knut Hansson, 78, Swedish footballer.
 * Luigi Musina, 75, Italian boxer.
 * John Arthur Pilcher, 77, British diplomat.
 * Bill Sherwood, 37, American musician and filmmaker, AIDS.
 * Tony Solaita, 43, American baseball player, shot.

11

 * Léopold Anoul, 67, Belgian football player.
 * Tom Brennan, 59, American basketball player.
 * Marie-Dominique Chenu, 95, French theologian.
 * Enrique Kistenmacher, 66, Argentine Olympic athlete (1948).
 * Colin Henderson Roberts, 80, British classical scholar.

12

 * Joseph Peter Michael Denning, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Erling Enger, 90, Norwegian painter.
 * Harold McCusker, 50, Northern Irish politician, cancer.
 * Victor Pokrovsky, 92, Russian choir director, translator, and music arranger.
 * Nenad Radulović, 30, Yugoslav singer, testicular cancer.

13

 * Binyomin Beinush Finkel, 78-79, Soviet-Israeli rabbi.
 * Angela Gregory, 86, American sculptor.
 * Heinz Haber, 76, German physicist.
 * Manuel Rodriguez Lopez, 55, Galician poet and writer.
 * Ken Lynch, 79, American actor, viral illness.
 * Leon Stein, 77-78, American writer.

14

 * Armistead L. Boothe, 82, American politician.
 * Michel Drach, 59, French filmmaker.
 * Graeme Hole, 59, Australian cricketer, cancer.
 * Tony Holiday, 38, German singer, AIDS.
 * Slick Johnson, 41, American racing driver, racing collision.
 * Dick Martin, 62, American artist.
 * José Luis Panizo, 68, Spanish footballer.
 * John M. Robsion, Jr., 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1959).
 * Fritz Schulz-Reichel, 77, German pianist.
 * Jean Wallace, 66, American actress, gastrointestinal bleeding.
 * Luděk Čajka, 26, Czechoslovak ice hockey player, spinal cord injury.

15

 * Keyes Beech, 76, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
 * Henry Brandon, 77, German-American actor, heart attack.
 * George Daney, 43, American football player, carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Dolores Faith, 48, American actress, suicide.
 * Ulf Johanson, 68, Swedish actor.
 * Frans Kellendonk, 39, Dutch novelist, AIDS.
 * Dorival Knippel, 72, Brazilian footballer.
 * Jack C. Massey, 85, American businessman, pneumonia.
 * Norman Parkinson, 76, English photographer.
 * Rudolf Schaad, 88, Russian-German film editor.

16

 * John Eastaugh, 69, British Anglican prelate.
 * Keith Haring, 31, American artist, AIDS.
 * Nurul Momen, 81, Bangladeshi playwright.
 * Luis Ortiz Monasterio, 83, Mexican sculptor.
 * József Moravetz, 79, Romanian football player.
 * Tadanari Okamoto, 58, Japanese animator.
 * Volodymyr Scherbytsky, 71, Soviet and Ukrainian politician, pneumonia.
 * Joshua Shelley, 70, American actor.
 * J. C. Trewin, 81, British journalist.

17

 * Robert Bernard, 76, German footballer.
 * Jean-Marc Boivin, 38, French mountaineer, extreme sports person, film maker, and author, BASE jumping accident.
 * Brendan Corish, 71, Irish politician.
 * Larry Cox, 42, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Hap Day, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Dino Falconi, 87, Italian screenwriter and film director.
 * Erik Rhodes, 84, American actor, pneumonia.
 * Allen Rivkin, 86, American screenwriter.
 * Hans Speier, 85, German-American sociologist.

18

 * Günther Bornkamm, 84, German theologian.
 * Herman Carlson, 83, Swedish ice hockey player.
 * Margaret Craske, 97, British ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Richard de Zoysa, 31, Sri Lankan journalist, human rights activist and actor, shot.
 * Joe Erskine, 56, Welsh boxer.
 * Tor Isedal, 65, Swedish actor.
 * Frank Ross, 85, American filmmaker, complications from brain surgery.

19

 * Edris Rice-Wray Carson, 86, American medical researcher.
 * Ernest Cole, 49, South African photographer, cancer.
 * Gabriel Katzka, 59, American theater, film and television producer, heart attack.
 * Francis Keppel, 73, American educator.
 * Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, 74, British socialite.
 * Otto E. Neugebauer, 90, Austrian-American mathematician and science historian.
 * Janusz Paluszkiewicz, 77, Polish actor.
 * Michael Powell, 84, English filmmaker, cancer.
 * Abdul Matin Chowdhury, Shaikh-e-Fulbari, 74-75, Bangladeshi religious scholar.
 * Massey H. Shepherd, 76, American priest and scholar.
 * William White, 69, Scottish cricketer. field hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.

20

 * Sergio Camargo, 59, Brazilian sculptor and relief maker.
 * Cecil Garriott, 73, American baseball player.
 * Harry Klinefelter, 77, American physician.
 * Verdina Shlonsky, 85, Russian-Israeli musician.

21

 * Zohrabai Ambalewali, 71-72, Indian singer.
 * Johnny Borland, 64, New Zealand athletics official.
 * Juanita Larrauri, 79, Argentine singer and politician.
 * Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, 86, Romanian-American mathematician.
 * Vincent Teresa, 59–60, American mobster (Patriarca crime family), kidney failure.

22

 * Stephen W. Burns, 35, American actor, AIDS.
 * T. O. Honiball, 85, South African cartoonist.
 * Andrew Jarvis, 99, Greek-American politician and businessman.
 * Victor Lasky, 72, American writer.
 * Evald Seepere, 78, Soviet/Estonian boxer.

23

 * Amritlal, 73, Indian writer.
 * Arne Bang-Hansen, 78, Norwegian actor.
 * José Napoleón Duarte, 64, Salvadoran politician, president (1984–1989), stomach cancer.
 * James M. Gavin, 82, American general.
 * Stan Hough, 71, American film producer.
 * Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, 37-38, Pakistani cleric, murdered.
 * David Samoylov, 69, Russian poet.
 * Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, 53, Dutch politician, cancer.

24

 * Arthur Ayrault, 55, American Olympic rower (1956, 1960).
 * Tony Conigliaro, 45, American baseball player, kidney failure.
 * Malcolm Forbes, 70, American politician and publisher (Forbes), heart attack.
 * Lloyd Jordan, 89, American sports player and coach.
 * Jure Kaštelan, 70, Yugoslav poet.
 * Arch Nicholson, 48, Australian film director, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Sandro Pertini, 93, Italian politician, president (1978–1985).
 * Johnnie Ray, 63, American singer ("Cry"), liver failure.
 * Gabriel Sempé, 88, French Olympic hurdler (1924, 1928).
 * Darryl Usher, 25, American football player, shot.

25

 * André de Korver, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.
 * Henry Fairlie, 66, British political journalist.
 * Estelle Peck Ishigo, 90, American artist and author.
 * Ingrid Larsen, 80, Danish chess player.

26

 * Lew Erber, 55, American gridiron football coach.
 * Julian Gascoigne, 86, British general.
 * Cornell Gunter, 53, American singer, shot.
 * Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, 97, American heiress and publisher (The New York Times).
 * Margot Walle, 68, Norwegian Olympic skater (1948).

27

 * Les Ames, 84, English cricket player.
 * Johannes Draaijer, 26, Dutch racing driver, heart block, heart attack.
 * Vern Freiburger, 66, American baseball player.
 * Alberto Mario Giustolisi, 61, Italian chess player.
 * Nahum Norbert Glatzer, 86, Austrian-American historian and philosopher.
 * Josephine Johnson, 79, American novelist, pneumonia.
 * Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc, 75, Vietnamese politician, prime minister (1954).
 * Alexandru Rosetti, 94, Romanian linguist, accident.

28

 * Erik Anderberg, 98, Swedish naval admiral.
 * Jack Conroy, 90, American leftist writer.
 * Mario Craveri, 87, Italian filmmaker.
 * Sylvia del Villard, 62, Puerto Rican actress and dancer.
 * Fabia Drake, 86, British actress.
 * Kornel Filipowicz, 76, Polish writer, lung cancer.
 * Russell Jacquet, 72, American trumpeter, heart attack.
 * Colin Milburn, 48, English cricketer, heart attack.
 * Wallace Reid Jr., 72, American actor, plane crash.
 * John O'Sullivan, 88, Irish politician.
 * Tuppy Owen-Smith, 81, South African cricket player.
 * David Prichard, 26, American guitarist, leukemia.
 * Greville Wynne, 70, British engineer and intelligence officer, esophageal cancer.