Deaths in January 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Arundhati Devi, 65, Indian actress, director, and singer.
 * Carmen Hill, 94, American baseball player.
 * Joe Hardstaff Jr, 78, English cricket player.
 * Patrick Kelly, 35, American fashion designer, AIDS.
 * Ernst Kuzorra, 84, German football player.
 * Niyazi Sel, 81, Turkish footballer.
 * T. B. Simatupang, 69, Indonesian National Armed Forces chief of staff.
 * James W. Wood, 65, American aeronautical engineer and astronaut.

2

 * Lawrence Alloway, 63, English-American art critic, cardiac arrest.
 * Evangelos Averoff, 79, Greek right wing politician and author, heart attack.
 * Bill Beckmann, 82, American baseball player.
 * Dally Duncan, 80, Scottish footballer.
 * Alan Hale, Jr., 68, American actor (Gilligan's Island, Hang 'Em High, Casey Jones), thymus cancer.
 * Leonhard Merzin, 55, Soviet actor.
 * Reginald Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton, 81, British politician.
 * T. R. Raghunath, 77, Indian film director.
 * Ben Reifel, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971), cancer.
 * Marianne C. Sharp, 88, American Mormon charity activist.
 * Vladimir Ussachevsky, 78, Soviet-American composer.

3

 * Loraine Boettner, 88, American theologian.
 * Mauro Cía, 70, Argentine boxer and actor.
 * Reuben Jones, 57, British equestrian rider and Olympian.
 * Joseph A. Loftus, 82, American journalist, stroke.
 * Peter van Steeden, 85, Dutch-American composer.
 * William Wells, 81, English politician.
 * Bandara Wijethunga, 50, Sri Lankan writer.

4

 * Robert Adams, 56, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
 * Lydia Bilbrook, 101, English actress.
 * Henry Bolte, 81, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria.
 * Alberto Lleras Camargo, 83, Colombian politician, president (1958–1962).
 * Harold Eugene Edgerton, 86, American electrical engineer and academic.
 * Bonnie Hollingsworth, 94, American baseball player.
 * Florrinell F. Morton, 85, American librarian.
 * Boris Nikolsky, 89, Soviet chemist.
 * Olaf Ussing, 82, Danish actor.
 * Wim Volkers, 90, Dutch football player.
 * Alfred Michael Watson, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate.

5

 * Alan Handley, 77, American television producer, heart attack.
 * Lola Iturbe, 87, Spanish trade unionist, activist, and journalist.
 * Arthur Kennedy, 75, American actor (Bright Victory, Peyton Place, Lawrence of Arabia), Tony winner (1949), brain cancer.
 * Bartell LaRue, 57, American actor.
 * Kléber Piot, 69, French racing cyclist.
 * Robert G. Rayburn, 74, American academic and theologian, cancer.
 * Jaroslav Rössler, 87, Czechoslovak photographer.
 * Genrikh Sidorenkov, 58, Russian ice hockey player.

6

 * Gordon Aitchison, 80, Canadian basketball player.
 * Walter Anderson, 92, American baseball player.
 * Tadashi Asai, 54, Japanese wrestler and Olympian.
 * Ian Charleson, 40, Scottish actor (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), AIDS.
 * Pavel Cherenkov, 85, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958).
 * Peter Cookson, 76, American actor, bone cancer.
 * Hans Jaray, 83, Austrian actor and playwright.
 * Gerald Mann, 82, American football player.
 * Sophie Piccard, 85, Russian-Swiss mathematician.
 * Jake Weber, 71, American basketball player.

7

 * Tadeusz Brzeziński, 93, Polish-Canadian diplomat, pneumonia.
 * Eero Böök, 79, Finnish chess player.
 * Edward Ennis, 82, American civil rights lawyer, diabetes.
 * Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, 89, British politician.
 * Rose Kushner, 60, American journalist, breast cancer.
 * Avraham Abba Leifer, 71, Romanian-American-Israeli rabbi.
 * Bronko Nagurski, 81, Canadian-American football player, cardiac arrest.
 * Joe Robbie, 73, American politician and football executive.
 * Harry L. Shapiro, 87, American anthropologist.
 * Napua Stevens, 71, American entertainer.
 * Horace Stoneham, 86, American baseball executive.
 * Johanna Töpfer, 60, German politician, suicide.

8

 * Georgie Auld, 70, American musician, lung cancer.
 * Mario Brignoli, 87, Italian Olympic racewalker (1936).
 * Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, 87, German royal and art historian.
 * Jaime Gil de Biedma, 60, Spanish poet, AIDS.
 * Paul A. Kennon, 55, American architect, heart attack.
 * Bernard Krigstein, 70, American artist.
 * Raymond Krug, 65, French footballer.
 * Johnny Sylvester, 74, American businessman.
 * Terry-Thomas, 78, English comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Robin Hood, Bachelor Flat), Parkinson's disease.

9

 * Paul Bauer, 93, German poet.
 * Roger Bower, 86, British soldier.
 * Northern Calloway, 41, American actor (Sesame Street), beaten, cardiovascular disease.
 * Spud Chandler, 82, American baseball player.
 * Rosemarie Clausen, 82, German photographer.
 * Jim Gillette, 72, American football player.
 * Rufus Mayes, 42, American football player, bacterial meningitis.
 * Edward McTiernan, 97, Australian politician and judge.
 * Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1971).
 * Bazilio Olara-Okello, 60-61, Ugandan soldier and politician, president (1985).
 * Shlomo Pines, 81, French-Israeli theologian.
 * Robert B. Pirie, 84, American naval admiral.
 * Cemal Süreya, 58-59, Turkish poet, diabetes.

10

 * John Benham, 89, British athlete.
 * Juliet Berto, 42, French actress, breast cancer.
 * Mino Guerrini, 62, Italian film director.
 * Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, 64, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
 * Gene Phillips, 74, American musician.
 * Liesel Schuch, 98, German singer.
 * Otto Weidinger, 75, German nazi SS-obersturmbannführer during World War II.
 * Lyle R. Wheeler, 84, American art director (Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Rebecca), five-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.
 * Herbert Williams, 81, American sailor and Olympic champion.

11

 * Carolyn Haywood, 92, American children's writer and illustrator.
 * Earl D. Johnson, 84, United States Under Secretary of the Army.
 * Ihsan Abdel Quddous, 71, Egyptian journalist, novelist and short-story writer, stroke.
 * Kittens Reichert, 79, American actress.
 * José Luis García Traid, 53, Spanish footballer, complications during surgery.

12

 * Joseph Sill Clark Jr., 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969).
 * John Hansen, 65, Danish footballer.
 * Ralph Heikkinen, 72, American football player.
 * Laurence J. Peter, 70, Canadian-American educator, stroke.
 * Paul Pisk, 96, Austrian-American composer.

13

 * Gaston Crunelle, 91, French flautist.
 * Francisco Hormazábal, 69, Chilean football player and manager.
 * Roy Jarvis, 63, American baseball player.
 * Jenő Kalmár, 81, Hungarian footballer.
 * Avraham Ofek, 54, Bulgarian-Israeli artist.
 * Pierre Pascal, 80, French poet and translator.
 * Gerhard Sturmberger, 49, Austrian football player.

14

 * Ruth Bunzel, 91, American anthropologist.
 * Sten-Åke Cederhök, 76, Swedish actor.
 * Sabri Dino, 48, Turkish footballer, suicide.
 * India Edwards, 94, American journalist.
 * Ken Kilrea, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, 82, British biochemist.
 * Anno Smith, 74, Dutch artist.
 * James Arthur Williams, 59, American antiques dealer, heart failure.
 * John Witty, 74, British film and television actor.

15

 * Bill Albans, 64, American Olympic athlete (1948, 1952).
 * Mani Madhava Chakyar, 90, Indian performance artist and sanskrit scholar.
 * Brainard Cheney, 89, American writer.
 * R. R. Diwakar, 95, Indian politician and writer.
 * František Douda, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic shot putter (1932).
 * Gordon Jackson, 66, Scottish actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Great Escape, The Ipcress File), bone cancer.
 * Donold Lourie, 90, American businessman and football player.
 * Fred Mundee, 76, American football player.
 * William O'Neal, 40, American FBI Black Panther Party informant, suicide by traffic collision.
 * Peggy van Praagh, 79, British-Australian ballet dancer and choreographer.

16

 * Lady Eve Balfour, 91, British farmer and organic farming pioneer.
 * Bill Heaton, 71, English footballer.
 * Clarence Janecek, 78, American gridiron football player.
 * Robert Lamartine, 54, French footballer.
 * Earl Naylor, 70, American baseball player.
 * Jean Saint-Fort Paillard, 76, French equestrian and Olympic champion.
 * Ruskin Spear, 78, English painter.

17

 * Andreas Aulie, 92, Norwegian jurist.
 * Fritz Brocksieper, 77, German musician.
 * Danie Burger, 56, South African Olympic hurdler (1956).
 * Anna Arnold Hedgeman, 90, American civil rights activist.
 * Charles Hernu, 66, French politician.
 * André Morice, 89, French politician.
 * Léon Motchane, 89, French mathematician.
 * Simon Nicholson, 55, British artist.
 * Y. C. James Yen, 96, Chinese educator and organizer, pneumonia.

18

 * Melanie Appleby, 23, English singer, pneumonia.
 * Kim Chang-Hee, 68, South Korean weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
 * Rusty Hamer, 42, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
 * Edouard Izac, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1947), heart failure.
 * Candy Jones, 64, American model and broadcaster, cancer.
 * Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, 78, British explorer and botanist, ALS.

19

 * Carlo Bagno, 69, Italian actor.
 * Pierre Barbizet, 67, French pianist.
 * Viña Delmar, 86, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.
 * Arthur Goldberg, 81, American judge and diplomat, heart failure.
 * Movses Gorgisyan, 28, Soviet Armenian independence activist and soldier, killed in battle.
 * Aldo Gucci, 84, Italian businessman (Gucci), prostate cancer.
 * Myles Horton, 84, American educator, brain tumor.
 * Alexander Pechersky, 80, Soviet soldier and humanitarian.
 * Rajneesh, 58, Indian mystic, heart failure.
 * Alberto Semprini, 81, English pianist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Maharram Seyidov, 37, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
 * Herbert Wehner, 83, German politician, diabetes.
 * J. Ernest Wharton, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1965).

20

 * Jack Arkwright, 87, English rugby player.
 * Claude Auclair, 46, French cartoonist.
 * Robert Donington, 82, British musicologist.
 * Hayedeh, 47, Iranian singer, heart attack
 * Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, 102, Japanese royal and politician, prime minister (1945), heart failure.
 * Hugh Ross, 91, American choral director.
 * Barbara Stanwyck, 82, American actress (Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire, The Big Valley), Emmy winner (1961, 1966, 1983), heart failure.
 * Fernand Vandernotte, 87, French Olympic rower (1932, 1936).

21

 * Asbjørn Bryhn, 83, Norwegian police officer and resistance member during World War II.
 * Frank Gervasi, 81, American writer and foreign correspondent, stroke.
 * Trude Fleischmann, 94, Austrian-born American photographer.
 * Patrick Mulligan, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Mark Sugden, 87, Irish rugby player.

22

 * Gordon Buehrig, 85, American automobile designer.
 * Giorgio Caproni, 78, Italian writer.
 * James Dyson, 75, British physicist.
 * Bill Ferrar, 96, English mathematician.
 * Karl Frankenstein, 84, German-Israeli educator.
 * Helmut Krausnick, 84, German historian and writer.
 * Mariano Rumor, 74, Italian politician, prime minister (1968–1970, 1973–1974), heart attack.
 * José Salomón, 73, Argentine football player.
 * Roman Vishniac, 92, Russian-German-American photographer, colon cancer.

23

 * Buzz Boll, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Clarence Bruce, 65, American baseball player.
 * Allen Collins, 37, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), pneumonia.
 * Wilhelm Dommes, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
 * Gerald Gibbs, 82, English cinematographer.
 * Nikolaus Hofreiter, 85, Austrian mathematician.
 * Charley Eugene Johns, 84, American politician, governor of Florida (1953–1955).
 * Derek Royle, 61, British actor, cancer.

24

 * Madge Bellamy, 90, American actress, heart failure.
 * John Blacking, 61, British anthropologist.
 * Helga Gnauer, 60, Austrian Olympic fencer (1960).
 * Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, 87, German royal.
 * Gerry Johnson, 71, American actress and television host.
 * Muhammad Juman, 54, Pakistani musician.
 * Saadia Kobashi, 86, Yemenite Jewish community leader in Israel.
 * Araken Patusca, 84, Brazilian football player.
 * Shantilal C. Sheth, 77, Indian pediatrician and academic.

25

 * Dámaso Alonso, 91, Spanish poet and literary critic.
 * Ava Gardner, 67, American actress (Mogambo, The Night of the Iguana, The Killers), pneumonia.
 * Edward C. Gleed, 73, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
 * Miloš Hrazdíra, 44, Czechoslovak racing cyclist and Olympian.
 * Joseph Lennon, 56, Irish politician.
 * Alexander Lockwood, 87, American actor.
 * Georges Mantha, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * John L. McCrea, 98, American naval officer during World War I and World War II, pneumonia.
 * Andy Puplis, 74, American football player.
 * John Ramsey, 62, American sports announcer, heart attack.

26

 * Dodo Abashidze, 65, Soviet actor and film director.
 * Hal Draper, 75, American socialist activist, pneumonia.
 * Lewis Garnsworthy, 67-68, Canadian Anglican prelate.
 * Bob Gerard, 76, English racing driver.
 * Toninho Guerreiro, 47, Brazilian football player, stroke.
 * Miloslav Ištvan, 61, Czechoslovak composer.
 * Ned Miller, 90, American songwriter, composer, and actor.
 * Lewis Mumford, 94, American historian.
 * Philip Nichols, 82, American judge, heart attack.
 * Boy Trip, 68, Dutch politician.

27

 * Miklós Borsos, 83, Hungarian sculptor.
 * Pit Corder, 71, British linguist.
 * Helen Jerome Eddy, 92, American actress, heart failure.
 * S. Charles Lee, 90, American architect.
 * Steffen Thomas, 84, German-American artist and poet.
 * Travis Webb, 79, American racing driver.
 * Henry Winterfeld, 88, German-American writer.

28

 * Joseph Payne Brennan, 71, American author and poet.
 * Tibor Flórián, 70, Hungarian chess player.
 * Nancy Gruver, 58, American bridge player.
 * Puma Jones, 36, American singer, breast cancer.
 * Jan Lambrichs, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.
 * Alfred McCoy, 90, American gridiron football player.
 * Chesley G. Peterson, 69, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
 * Edward Szymkowiak, 57, Polish football player.
 * Casey Tibbs, 60, American cowboy and rodeo performer, bone cancer.
 * F. W. Winterbotham, 92, British RAF officer and spy during World War II.

29

 * Stan Batinski, 72, American football player.
 * Elise Blumann, 93, German-Australian artist.
 * Irma Brandeis, 84, American scholar of Dante Alighieri.
 * Arnaud d'Usseau, 73, American screenwriter, stomach cancer.
 * Hadwen Carlton Fuller, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1949).

30

 * M. A. B. Beg, 55, Pakistani-American theoretical physicist.
 * Severino Canavesi, 79, Italian racing cyclist.
 * John Lindgren, 90, Swedish skier and Olympian.
 * João Uva de Matos Proença, 51, Portuguese diplomat.

31

 * Muammer Aksoy, 73, Turkish academic.
 * Ricardo Bordallo, 62, American politician and businessman, suicide.
 * Rashad Khalifa, 54, Egyptian-American biochemist, stabbed.
 * Yitzhak Klinghoffer, 84, Austrian-Israeli politician.
 * Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 88, German-Brazilian zoologist.
 * Ramon Olalkiaga, 91, Spanish footballer.
 * Samuel C. Phillips, 68, American Air Force general, cancer.
 * Hans Putz, 69, Austrian actor.
 * Hazel Marguerite Schmoll, 99, American botanist.
 * Dick Wilson, 55, American Oglala tribal chairman, kidney failure.