Deaths in July 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Pat Field, 79, Australian politician, suicide.
 * Paul Gondjout, 78, Gabonese politician.
 * Lorrie Hunter, 90, New Zealand politician.
 * Anna Palk, 48, English actress, cancer.
 * Eric M. Rogers, 87, British physicist.
 * Jurriaan Schrofer, 64, Dutch artist.
 * Ivan Serov, 84, Russian intelligence officer, head of the KGB (1954–1958).
 * Willem Winkelman, 102, Dutch Olympic track and field athlete (1908).

2

 * Silvina Bullrich, 74, Argentine novelist, lung cancer.
 * Bert Connelly, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Ludwig Franz, 67, German politician.
 * Marion Rice Hart, 98, American athlete.
 * Snooky Lanson, 76, American singer and television personality.
 * Mildred Scott Olmsted, 99, American peace activist.

3

 * Armand Apell, 85, French boxer.
 * Bodheswaran, 88, Indian poet.
 * Maurice Girodias, 71, French publisher, heart attack.
 * Potsy Jones, 80, American football player.
 * Vic Olsson, 86, New Zealand rower.

4

 * Phil Boggs, 40, American Olympic diver (1976), lymphoma.
 * Olive Ann Burns, 65, American novelist, heart failure.
 * Beverly Grant, 53, American actress, cancer.
 * Marshall Hall, 79, American mathematician.
 * Sweeney Schriner, 78, Russian-born Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Willi Soya, 54, German footballer.
 * Nathaniel Wyeth, 78, American engineer and inventor.

5

 * Edith Bülbring, 86, German-English physiologist.
 * Tom Curran, 79, American Olympic rower (1936).
 * Eugene Guth, 84, Austrian-American physicist.
 * Thistle Yolette Harris, 87, Australian botanist.
 * Hellmut Wilhelm, 84, German-American Sinologist.

6

 * William R. Higgins, 45, American colonel, torture murder. (death declared on this date).
 * Alfred Maasik, 93, Russian-American runner.
 * Georg Schmidt, 63, Austrian football manager.
 * Angel Zamarripa, 77, Mexican artist, kidney failure.

7

 * Don Bessent, 59, American baseball player, alcohol poisoning.
 * Cazuza, 32, Brazilian musician, AIDS.
 * Bill Cullen, 70, American television personality (I've Got a Secret), lung cancer.
 * Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, 91, German interfaith priest.
 * Pu Laldenga, 63, Indian politician, lung cancer.
 * Tommy Pool, 55, American Olympic sport shooter (1964).

8

 * Joe Appiah, 71, Ghanaian lawyer, politician and statesman.
 * Richard Barry Bernstein, 66, American physical chemist, heart attack.
 * Ivan Black, 77, Australian politician.
 * R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr., 74, American baseball executive, cancer.
 * Amélia Rey Colaço, 92, Portuguese actor.
 * Howard Duff, 76, American actor, heart attack.
 * Hans Faverey, 56, Dutch poet.
 * John Galbally, 79, Australian politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Malcolm Hilton, 61, English cricketer.
 * Robert Murzeau, 81, French actor.
 * Aage Stentoft, 76, Danish composer.
 * George Edward Wheeler, 75, American Olympic gymnast (1936).
 * David Widder, 92, American mathematician.

9

 * Hélène Boschi, 72, Swiss-French pianist.
 * René Chanas, 76, French film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
 * Sonny Dunham, 78, American trumpeter, cancer.
 * Hertha Feist, 94, German expressionist dancer and choreographer.
 * Vernon Simeon Plemion Grant, 88, American illustrator.
 * Maire Gullichsen, 83, Finnish art collector.
 * Ragnar Olsen, 76, Norwegian Olympic racewalker (1952).
 * Horst Rittel, 59, German design theorist.
 * Eric M. Warburg, 90, German banker.
 * Friedrich Wegener, 83, German pathologist.

10

 * Alain Chapel, 52, French chef, stroke.
 * Vidya Dhar Mahajan, 77, Indian historian and political scientist.
 * Donald McGavran, 92, Indian-American missiologist.
 * Sergei Rudenko, 85, Soviet general.
 * Alfred Ryan, 86, Australian footballer and cricket player.

11

 * Ignacio Aguirre, 89, Mexican painter and engraver.
 * Steve Rabinovitch, 47, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1960).
 * Earl Stewart, 68, American golfer.
 * George Watts, 75, American football player.
 * Sun Yu, 90, Chinese film director.

12

 * Bill Burrud, 65, American child actor and television host, heart attack.
 * Yang Chin-hu, 91, Taiwanese politician.
 * Savkuz Dzarasov, 60, Soviet wrestler and Olympic medalist.
 * Joan Whitney Kramer, 76, American musician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Paul Reps, 94, American poet.
 * João Saldanha, 73, Brazilian football coach.

13

 * Alaattin Baydar, 88-89, Turkish footballer.
 * George L. Mabry Jr., 72, American general, prostate cancer.
 * Lois Moran, 81, American actress, cancer.
 * Laura Perls, 84, German psychologist.

14

 * Ralph Humphrey, 58, American painter.
 * Philip Leacock, 72, English filmmaker.
 * Diego Ordóñez, 86, Spanish Olympic sprinter (1920, 1924, 1928).
 * Walter Sedlmayr, 64, German actor, murdered.

15

 * Oleg Kagan, 43, Soviet violinist, cancer.
 * Poul Larsen, 73, Danish canoeist and Olympian.
 * Alison Leggatt, 86, English actress.
 * Margaret Lockwood, 73, English actress, cirrhosis.
 * Alexandre Pawlisiak, 77, French racing cyclist.
 * Omar Abu Risha, 80, Syrian diplomat and poet.
 * Enn Roos, 81, Soviet sculptor.
 * Trouble T Roy, 22, American hip hop dancer, injuries sustained from a fall.
 * Bud Thackery, 87, American cinematographer.
 * Zaim Topčić, 70, Yugoslav novelist.
 * Wilhelm Vorwerg, 90, German actor and art director.

16

 * Tomás Blanco, 79, Spanish actor.
 * Mogens Fog, 86, Danish politician.
 * Mikhail Matusovsky, 74, Soviet poet.
 * Miguel Muñoz, 68, Spanish footballer, internal bleeding.
 * Valentin Pikul, 62, Soviet novelist, heart attack.
 * Sidney Torch, 82, British musician, suicide by drug overdose.

17

 * Bernard Cowan, 68, Canadian actor and television producer.
 * Lidiya Ginzburg, 88, Soviet literary critic.
 * Guglielmo Giovannini, 64, Italian footballer.
 * Wilf Grant, 69, English footballer.
 * Edward A. Murphy, Jr., 72, American aerospace engineer, namesake of Murphy's law.

18

 * Gerry Boulet, 44, Canadian singer, cancer.
 * Yves Chaland, 33, French cartoonist, traffic collision.
 * André Chastel, 77, French art historian.
 * Georges Dargaud, 79, French publisher.
 * Roy Fagan, 84, Australian politician.
 * Karl Menninger, 96, American psychiatrist, abdominal cancer.
 * Yun Po-sun, 92, South Korean politician, president (1960–1962), diabetes.
 * Johnny Wayne, 72, Canadian comedian, brain cancer.
 * Štefan Čambal, 81, Czechoslovak football player.

19

 * Egil Aarvik, 77, Norwegian politician.
 * Helmut Becker, 63, German viticulturist.
 * Georgi Burkov, 57, Soviet actor, thrombosis.
 * Daniel du Janerand, 71, French painter, muralist, and book illustrator.
 * Gusman Kosanov, 55, Soviet Olympic sprinter (1960, 1964), suicide.
 * Eddie Quillan, 83, American actor, cancer.

20

 * Auguste Denise, 84, Ivorian politician and Head of state.
 * Sergei Parajanov, 66, Soviet filmmaker, cancer.
 * Klara Sierońska-Kostrzewa, 76, Polish Olympic gymnast (1936).
 * Bruno Splieth, 73, German sailor.

21

 * Heitor Canalli, 80, Brazilian football player.
 * Sacha Pitoëff, 70, Swiss actor.
 * Stanley Shapiro, 65, American screenwriter.
 * P. R. Shyamala, 59, Indian novelist.
 * Joe Turner, 82, American pianist, heart attack.
 * Rich Vogler, 39, American racing driver, racing collision.

22

 * Ray Mawby, 68, British politician.
 * Preben Neergaard, 70, Danish actor.
 * Manuel Puig, 57, Argentine novelist, heart attack.
 * Eduard Streltsov, 53, Soviet footballer, laryngeal cancer.

23

 * Otto Ambros, 89, German chemist and war criminal during World War II.
 * Georges Flamant, 86, French film actor.
 * Pierre Gandon, 91, French illustrator and engraver.
 * James D. Hart, 79, American literary scholar, brain cancer.
 * Maxwell Newton, 61, Australian publisher.
 * Bert Sommer, 41, American singer and actor, respiratory illness.
 * Kenjiro Takayanagi, 91, Japanese engineer and television pioneer, pneumonia.

24

 * Michel Beaune, 56, French actor, cancer.
 * Alan John Clarke, 54, English filmmaker, lung cancer.
 * Coen Dillen, 63, Dutch football player, heart attack.
 * Pasquale Fornara, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Freddie Tavares, 77, American designer, engineer, and musician.
 * Arno Arthur Wachmann, 88, German astronomer.
 * Andy Woehr, 94, American baseball player.

25

 * Jean Fourastié, 83, French civil servant, economist, and intellectual.
 * Winefreda Geonzon, 48, Filipino lawyer, cancer.
 * Sam Grainger, 60, American comic book artist (Marvel Comics).
 * Kashim Ibrahim, 80, Nigerian politician.
 * Alfredo Pián, 77, Argentine racing driver.
 * S. A. Rahman, 87, Pakistani judge.
 * Paul Shannon, 80, American radio and television announcer, brain cancer.
 * Kuzman Sotirović, 81, Yugoslav footballer.

26

 * Leo Duyndam, 42, Dutch road bicycle racer, heart attack.
 * Brent Mydland, 37, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead), drug overdose.
 * Albert Rose, 80, American physicist, lung cancer.
 * Giorgio Scarlatti, 68, Italian racing driver.
 * John Sylvester, 85-86, American naval admiral.

27

 * Elizabeth Allan, 80, English actress.
 * Ernest Archer, 80, British art director.
 * Bobby Day, 60, American singer ("Rockin' Robin"), prostate cancer.
 * Jimmy De Sana, 40, American artist, AIDS.
 * Ed Emshwiller, 65, American visual artist, cancer.
 * Maxine Gates, 73, American actress, respiratory failure.

28

 * Red Barrett, 75, American baseball player.
 * Maurice Braddell, 89, English actor and author.
 * Jill Esmond, 82, English actress.
 * Lancelot Layne, Trinidad and Tobago musician.

29

 * Georges Conchon, 65, French writer.
 * Herbert O. Fisher, 81, American aviation executive, heart failure.
 * Bruno Kreisky, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor (1970–1983), heart failure.
 * Cai Qiao, 92, Chinese physiologist and physician.
 * Arthur Samuel, 88, American computer scientist.

30

 * Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, 93, British diplomat.
 * Launcelot Fleming, 83, British Anglican prelate.
 * Ian Gow, 53, British politician, car bombing.
 * Gustaf Jonsson, 87, Swedish skier.
 * Karl Weber, 74, American actor, heart failure.

31

 * Lowell Davidson, 48, American pianist, tuberculosis.
 * Nicolae Giosan, 68, Romanian agricultural engineer and politician.
 * Albert Leduc, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Wilhelm Nowack, 92, German economist and politician.
 * Lovro Radonjić, 62, Yugoslav water polo player and Olympic medalist.
 * Fernando Sancho, 74, Spanish actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ludger Westrick, 95, German politician.