Deaths in June 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Eric Barker, 78, English actor (Carry On).
 * Wilhelm Borchert, 83, German actor.
 * Dow Hover, 89, American executioner, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Wieslaw Kielar, 70, Polish filmmaker and author.

2

 * Claude Chabauty, 80, French mathematician.
 * Walter Davis, 57, American pianist, liver and kidney disease.
 * Rex Harrison, 82, English actor (My Fair Lady), pancreatic cancer.
 * Shriram Sharma, 78, Indian author and freedom fighter.

3

 * Tom Brown, 77, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Robert Noyce, 62, American physicist and entrepreneur (Intel), heart attack.
 * Richard Sohl, 37, American musician, heart attack.
 * Juan Rovira Tarazona, 60, Spanish politician.
 * Aino Taube, 77, Swedish actress.

4

 * Stiv Bators, 40, American punk rock vocalist and guitarist, traffic collision.
 * Yulian Bromley, 69, Soviet anthropologist.
 * Robert Edwards, 85, British politician.
 * Jack Gilford, 81, American actor (Save the Tiger), stomach cancer.
 * Ivor Raymonde, 63, British musician.

5

 * Abdul Aziz, 77, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Luís Viana Filho, 82, Brazilian politician.
 * Jim Hodder, 42, American drummer (Steely Dan), drowned.
 * Vasily Kuznetsov, 89, Soviet politician, acting head of state (1982–1983, 1984, 1985).
 * Peter Throckmorton, 61, American archaeologist and photojournalist.

6

 * Albert Alderman, 82, English cricketer and footballer.
 * Aurora de Albornoz, 64, Spanish academic, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Mato Dukovac, 71, Yugoslav flying ace during World War II.
 * Marcel Grignon, 75, French cinematographer.
 * Sobir Kamolov, 80, Soviet politician.
 * Butch Lindley, 42, American racing driver, racing accident.
 * Joe Loss, 80, British musician.
 * Fyodor Remezov, 93, Soviet general.

7

 * Robert Perceval Armitage, 83, British colonial administrator.
 * Barbara Baxley, 67, American actress and singer, heart attack.
 * Lou Blackburn, 67, American trombonist.
 * Mary Katherine Campbell, 84, American beauty pageant contestant.
 * Alfredo Poveda, 64, Ecuadorian politician, interim president (1976–1979), heart attack.
 * Moh Yoon-sook, 80, South Korean poet.
 * Petar Šegvić, 59, Yugoslav Olympic rower (1952).

8

 * José Figueres Ferrer, 83, Costa Rican politician, president (1948–1949, 1953–1958, 1970–1974).
 * Herbie Matthews, 76, Australian rules football player.
 * Neb Stewart, 72, American baseball player.
 * Remy Van Lierde, 74, Belgian flying ace during World War II.

9

 * Asad Bhopali, 68, Indian lyricist and poet.
 * James Carreras, 81, British film producer.
 * C.P. de Cumont, 88, Belgian general.
 * Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher, 87, British politician.
 * John Holland, 63, New Zealand hurdler, cancer.
 * Angus McBean, 86, Welsh photographer.

10

 * Russel Carrero, 39, Nicaraguan Olympic sprinter (1972).
 * Ludvig Holm-Olsen, 76, Norwegian linguist.
 * Hanna Olsen, 100, Swedish Olympic fencer (1924, 1928).
 * Hubert Rostaing, 71, French musician.

11

 * Vicente Aguirre, 89, Argentine football player.
 * Irakly Andronikov, 81, Soviet and Russian literature historian and media personality.
 * Seosamh Mac Grianna, 89, Irish writer.
 * Bram Kool, 53, Dutch racing cyclist.
 * John H. Manley, 82, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project).
 * Clyde McCoy, 86, American trumpeter, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Oldřich Nejedlý, 80, Czechoslovak footballer.
 * Bert Norris, 91, English Olympic runner (1936).
 * Joan Stevens, 81, New Zealand academic.
 * Isaac D. White, 89, American general.
 * Vaso Čubrilović, 93, Yugoslav scholar and politician.

12

 * Solomon Freehof, 97, British-American rabbi and scholar.
 * Moushegh Ishkhan, 77, Armenian diasporan poet, writer and educator.
 * Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, 89, Japanese poet and film critic.
 * Gerald Marchesi, 61, Italian-Australian football player.
 * Georg Meistermann, 78, German painter.
 * Terence O'Neill, 75, Northern Irish politician, prime minister (1963–1969), cancer.
 * Billy Taylor, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Jim Walkup, 94, American baseball player.
 * Willy Ørskov, 69, Danish sculptor.

13

 * Antony Andrewes, 80, English historian.
 * Barbara Claßen, 32, German Olympic judoka (1988), suicide.
 * Gidsken Jakobsen, 81, Norwegian aviator.
 * Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, 85, Pakistani politician, first lady (1947–1951).
 * Michiyo Kogure, 72, Japanese actress.
 * Frank McGuren, 80, Australian politician.
 * Thomas Ponsonby, 3rd Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 59, British politician.

14

 * Erna Berger, 89, German singer.
 * Ted Buckle, 65, English football player.
 * Jay Gorney, 93, American songwriter.
 * Ralf Liivar, 87, Soviet football player.
 * Chet McNabb, 69, American basketball player.
 * Roy Nutt, 59, American computer engineer, lung cancer.
 * Jean-François Pintat, 66, French politician.
 * Heinrich Reinhardt, 87, German-Argentine chess player.

15

 * Nobuo Arai, 80–81, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1928).
 * St. Clair Drake, 79, American sociologist.
 * Raymond Huntley, 86, English actor.
 * Cynthia Irwin-Williams, 54, American archaeologist.
 * Bucky Jacobs, 77, American baseball player.
 * George Nakashima, 85, American furniture designer.
 * Leonard Sachs, 80, South African-British actor, kidney failure.

16

 * Herman S. Bloch, 78, American chemist, heart attack.
 * Thomas George Cowling, 83, English astronomer.
 * Dennis Dyer, 76, South African cricket player.
 * Megan Leigh, 26, American pornographic actress, suicide by gunshot.
 * Jack K. McFall, 84, American diplomat.
 * Feliciano Monti, 87, Italian footballer.
 * Dame Eva Turner, 98, English singer.
 * Ruedi Walter, 73, Swiss actor and comedian, complications from surgery.

17

 * Konrad Bauer, 71, German flying ace during World War II.
 * Henry T. Bream, 90, American baseball player.
 * Dick Elffers, 79, Dutch artist.
 * Paul Giovanni, 57, American playwright and composer, AIDS.
 * Bob Hamerton, 79, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1936).
 * Aleksandrs Leimanis, 76, Soviet film director.
 * Francisco Solano Patiño, 66–67, Paraguayan football player.
 * Ronald F. Tylecote, 74, British archaeologist.

18

 * Barbara Cason, 61, American actress, heart attack.
 * Henryk Leliwa-Roycewicz, 91, Polish Olympic equestrian (1936).
 * Ronald Lewis, 80, British politician.
 * Rolf Stranger, 99, Norwegian politician.
 * John Edward Swindler, 46, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
 * Barbra Walz, 39, American fashion photographer, breast cancer.

19

 * Isabella Smith Andrews, 84, Scottish-born New Zealand playwright.
 * Charles R. Farnsley, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1967), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Aleksandr Goncharov, 31, Soviet field hockey player and Olympian.
 * Steen Eiler Rasmussen, 92, Danish architect.
 * Karel Sys, 76, Belgian boxer.
 * Bill Westwick, 81, Canadian sports journalist.
 * G. Yogasangari, Sri Lankan politician, shot.

20

 * Ina Balin, 52, American actress, pulmonary hypertension.
 * Mario Dal Fabbro, 76, Italian American artist and author.
 * Tom Hopkinson, 85, British journalist.
 * Levin Kipnis, 95, Russian-Israeli author.
 * James Nguyễn Ngọc Quang, 80, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cần Thơ (1965–1990).
 * Kōsaku Yosida, 81, Japanese mathematician.

21

 * Cedric Belfrage, 85, English journalist.
 * June Christy, 64, American singer, kidney failure.
 * Eliahu Eilat, 86, Soviet-Israeli diplomat.
 * Ross Munro, 76, Canadian war correspondent during World War II.
 * Tony Sarausky, 77, American football player.
 * Margaret J. Winkler, 95, American animation producer.
 * Zheng Yanfen, 88, Taiwanese politician, cerebral hemorrhage.

22

 * Ilya Frank, 81, Soviet nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958).
 * Elizabeth Harwood, 52, English singer, cancer.
 * Binod Kanungo, 78, Indian author, freedom fighter, and encyclopedia compiler.
 * Joseph Murumbi, 79, Kenyan politician.
 * Sabeena Rafi, 71, Indian literary critic.

23

 * Harindranath Chattopadhyay, 92, Indian politician, actor and playwright, cardiac arrest.
 * Frank Gatliff, 62, Australian-English actor.
 * Wim Kat, 85, Dutch Olympic runner (1924).
 * Ellis Marcus, 72, American television writer, heart attack.
 * Hermann Rahn, 77, American physiologist.
 * Matthew Ward, 39, American translator, AIDS.

24

 * Germán Suárez Flamerich, 83, Venezuelan politician, president (1950–1952).
 * Sean Hughes, 44, British history teacher and politician, cancer.
 * William Kneale, 84, English logician.
 * Paul Lindemann, 72, American basketball player, Goodpasture syndrome.

25

 * Jorge Alcalde, 73, Peruvian footballer.
 * Bizunesh Bekele, 53–54, Ethiopian singer.
 * Sydney Boehm, 82, American filmmaker, pneumonia.
 * Robert Carney, 95, American naval admiral, cardiac arrest.
 * Peggy Glanville-Hicks, 77, Australian composer.
 * Melba Roy Mouton, 61, American mathematician, brain cancer.
 * Yevgeniya Sechenova, 71, Soviet Olympic runner (1952).
 * Ronald Gene Simmons, 49, American convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * John Stoll, 76, British art director.

26

 * Anni Blomqvist, 80, Finnish-Swedish novelist.
 * Albert Byrd, 74, American racing cyclist.
 * Doc Kauffman, 89, German-American electric guitar engineer.
 * Wolfe Kelman, 66, Austrian-American rabbi, melanoma.
 * J. C. R. Licklider, 75, American computer scientist, asthma.
 * Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina, 72, Spanish author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays, cancer.
 * Carroll Ringwalt, 82, American football player.
 * Hans Schwerdtfeger, 87, German-Canadian-Australian mathematician.
 * James Edward Smith, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Sidney Smith, 82, English snooker player.
 * Glen Milton Storr, 68, Australian zoologist.

27

 * Olav Benum, 92, Norwegian politician.
 * Lambert Anthony Hoch, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * José Marrone, 74, Argentine actor, cardiovascular disease.
 * José Clemente Maurer, 90, German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Joe O'Rourke, 85, American baseball player.
 * Gilberto Román, 28, Mexican boxer, traffic collision.

28

 * Juan Friede Alter, 89, Ukrainian-Colombian historian of Jewish descent.
 * Per Bergersen, 29, Norwegian musician, assisted suicide by gunshot.
 * Borys Ivchenko, 49, Ukrainian actor and film director.
 * Herbert Jobst, 74, German writer.

29

 * Dick Barton, 78, South African boxer and Olympian.
 * René Boël, 91, Belgian industrialist.
 * Boyd Perry, 76, American baseball player.
 * Irving Wallace, 74, American novelist, pancreatic cancer.

30

 * Lynne Carol, 76, British actress, heart attack.
 * Marquis Childs, 87, American journalist, cardiovascular disease.
 * Miguel Cuenco, 85, Filipino politician.
 * Eli Whitney Debevoise, 90, American lawyer.
 * Dudu Pukwana, 51, South African musician, liver failure.
 * Brian Tiler, 47, English footballer and football executive, traffic collision.