Deaths in March 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Desmond Brain, 80, Australian cricketer.
 * Max Bulla, 84, Austrian racing cyclist.
 * Ben Hill Griffin, Jr., 79, American businessman and politician.
 * Dainin Katagiri, 62, Japanese-American Zen master, cancer.

2

 * Arthur Fleischmann, 93, Czech-British sculptor.
 * Shakey Jake Harris, 68, American musician.
 * Reg Saunders, 69, Aboriginal Australian Army officer.
 * Shin Shalom, 85, Israeli writer.

3

 * Roberto Bertol, 72, Spanish football player.
 * Gérard Blitz, 78, Belgian entrepreneur.
 * William D. Dunham, 70, American general and flying ace during World War II.
 * Frans Goedhart, 86, Dutch politician and journalist.
 * Louis Page, 84, French cinematographer.
 * Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 91, American astronomer, heart failure.

4

 * Abraham Bernstein, 71, American politician.
 * Hank Gathers, 23, American basketball player, ventricular tachycardia.
 * Konstantin Konstantinovich Kokkinaki, 79, Soviet fighter and test pilot.
 * Vasily Margelov, 81, Soviet general.
 * Heinz Schnackertz, 78, German cinematographer.
 * Harry Worthington, 98, American Olympic track and field athlete (1912).

5

 * Albano, 67, Portuguese footballer.
 * Edmund Conen, 75, German football player.
 * Mala, 47, Pakistani singer.
 * Timothy Mason, 50, English marxist historian of Nazi Germany, suicide.
 * Gary Merrill, 74, American actor (All About Eve), lung cancer.
 * Hans Christian Nielsen, 61, Danish footballer.
 * Gina Pane, 50, French artist.
 * Gloria Carter Spann, 63, American motorcyclist, sister of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Peter Adolf Thiessen, 90, German chemist.
 * Karel Thijs, 71, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * William Appleman Williams, 68, American historian.

6

 * Friedrich Hielscher, 87, German theologian.
 * Taro Kagawa, 67, Japanese footballer.
 * E. T. Klassen, 81, United States Postmaster General.
 * Egill Knutzen, 75, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).
 * Adam Papée, 94, Polish fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * William Raborn, 84, American intelligence officer, Director of Central Intelligence (1965–1966).
 * Joe Sewell, 91, American baseball player.
 * Julian Spence, 60, American football player.
 * Earl T. Wagner, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).

7

 * Claude Arrieu, 86, French composer.
 * Shuddhananda Bharati, 92, Indian religious philosopher.
 * Shenork I Kaloustian of Constantinople, 76, Soviet Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (since 1963).
 * Pancho Córdova, 73, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director.
 * Çetin Emeç, 54–55, Turkish journalist, shot.
 * Ruth Glass, 77, German-British sociologist and urban planner.
 * Mordecai Gorelik, 90, Russian-American theatrical designer, cancer.
 * Jay Lovestone, 92, Russian-American political activist.
 * Luís Carlos Prestes, 92, Brazilian politician, heart attack.
 * Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 89, South African politician.
 * Salvatore Tripoli, 85, American boxer and Olympic medalist.
 * Mihály Tóth, 63, Hungarian football player.
 * Carl A. Wirtanen, 79, American astronomer.

8

 * Erkki Aaltonen, 79, Finnish composer.
 * Erich Hohagen, 75, German general and flying ace during World War II.
 * Karin Kavli, 83, Swedish actress.
 * Charles Krüger, 93, Luxembourgian football player.
 * Jack Lindsay, 89, Australian-British writer.
 * John Ben Shepperd, 74, American politician, cancer.
 * Hein van Breenen, 60, Dutch racing cyclist.

9

 * Georgios Costakis, 76, Soviet collector of Russian art.
 * Abraham Solomon Halkin, 86, Russian-American-Israeli historian, pneumonia.
 * Giorgos Joannides, 67, Greek-born American intelligence officer.
 * Martial Singher, 85, French opera singer.
 * Lou Vedder, 92, American football player.

10

 * Tseng Kwong Chi, 39, Hong Kong-American photographer, AIDS.
 * B. R. Deodhar, 88, Indian singer.
 * Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, 83, British politician.
 * Pat McDonald, 68, Australian actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Harro Ran, 52, Dutch water polo player.
 * Otto Schuhart, 80, German U-boat commander during War II.
 * Darbara Singh, 74, Indian politician.
 * Lance Tingay, 74, British sports journalist, heart attack.
 * Reg Wright, 84, Australian politician.

11

 * Dan Archibong, 46, Nigerian soldier and politician, traffic collision.
 * Muriel Dickson, 86, Scottish soprano.
 * Pratul Chandra Gupta, 80, Indian historian.
 * Dean Horrix, 28, English footballer, traffic collision.
 * Edward Grady Partin, 66, American trade unionist.
 * Oronzo Pugliese, 79, Italian football manager.
 * Roy Schalk, 81, American baseball player.

12

 * Bruce Barnes, 80, American tennis player.
 * Rie de Balbian Verster-Bolderheij, 100, Dutch painter.
 * Wallace Breem, 63, British author.
 * Lamberto Cesari, 79, Italian-American mathematician.
 * Jane Grigson, 61, English cookbook writer, cervical cancer.
 * Eugene V. Klein, 69, American businessman.
 * Rosamond Lehmann, 89, English novelist.
 * Walter Orr Roberts, 74, American atmospheric scientist and astronomer, cancer.
 * Alf Sherwood, 66, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
 * Philippe Soupault, 92, French writer.
 * Harry South, 60, English musician.

13

 * Bruno Bettelheim, 86, Austrian-American psychologist, suicide by asphyxiation.
 * Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley, 70, British hereditary peer.
 * Albert De Cleyn, 72, Belgian football player.
 * Ernst Goldenbaum, 91, German politician.
 * Graham Martin, 77, American diplomat.
 * Karl Münchinger, 74, German conductor.
 * Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova, 85, Russian-British anthropologist.
 * Gottfried Weimann, 82, German Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).

14

 * Robert H. Bahmer, 85, American archivist.
 * Wilhelm Baumann, 77, German handball player.
 * Pete Close, 52, American Olympic runner (1960).
 * Richard Cooper, 44, English cricketer.
 * Harold Medina, 102, American judge.
 * Yuri Sokolov, 29, Soviet Olympic judoka (1988) and criminal, killed.
 * Aubrey Wisberg, 80, British-American filmmaker, cancer.

15

 * Farzad Bazoft, 31, Iranian-British journalist and alleged spy, execution by hanging.
 * José Antonio Bottiroli, 70, Argentine composer.
 * Jim Ede, 94, British art collector.
 * Loleta Fyan, 95, American librarian.
 * Tom Harmon, 70, American football player.
 * Mykola Makhynia, 77, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach.

16

 * Ernst Bacon, 91, American composer.
 * Wolfgang Clemen, 81, German literary scholar.
 * Fritz Ewert, 53, German footballer.
 * James Frank Gilliam, 75, American classical scholar.
 * Angus Scott, 62, British track and field athlete and Olympian.

17

 * Capucine, 62, French model and actress (The Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?), suicide by jumping.
 * Samuel H. Friedman, 93, American journalist and labor union activist, pneumonia.
 * Ric Grech, 44, British musician, liver failure.
 * Nanette Guilford, 86, American opera singer, gastroenteritis.
 * Mohamed Latif, 80, Egyptian football player.
 * Jack Noren, 60, American drummer.
 * Rose Marie Pangborn, 57–58, American food scientist, cancer.
 * Carmelo Samonà, 64, Italian academic.

18

 * Robin Harris, 36, American comedian and actor, heart attack.
 * Bob Katter, Sr., 71, Australian politician.
 * Charles Phelps Smyth, 95, American chemist.
 * Eileen Soper, 84, English artist.
 * Zacarias, 56, Brazilian actor.

19

 * Oyinkan Abayomi, 93, Nigerian activist.
 * Tiny Brauer, 80, American actor.
 * James H. R. Cromwell, 93, American diplomat.
 * Wilhelm Flügge, 86, German engineer.
 * Leopold Neumer, 71, Austrian football player.
 * Oulaya, 53, Tunisian singer and actress.
 * Andrew Wood, 24, American singer, heroin overdose.

20

 * Jason Boe, 61, American politician.
 * Maurice Cloche, 82, French filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.
 * Kenneth Mather, 78, British geneticist, heart attack.
 * Wilhelm Neef, 74, German conductor.
 * Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, 79, British banker and intelligence officer.
 * Lev Yashin, 60, Soviet footballer, stomach cancer.

21

 * Dessie Cullinane, 70, Irish footballer.
 * Allan Roberts, 46, British politician, cancer.
 * Mohammad Shahiduddin, 67, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and politician.
 * Edward Wojda, 48, Polish wrestler and Olympian.
 * Rayburn Wright, 67, American trombonist, composer, and conductor, cancer.

22

 * Gerald Bull, 62, Canadian military engineer, shot.
 * Maurice Fleuret, 57, French composer.
 * Robert Karplus, 63, Austrian-American theoretical physicist.
 * Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, 33, Colombian communist politician, homicide.
 * Geoffrey Ostergaard, 63, British political scientist, leukemia.
 * Cornelius A. Pickett, 87, American politician.

23

 * John Dexter, 64, English theatre director.
 * René Enríquez, 56, Nicaraguan-American actor, AIDS.
 * John Jardine, 54, American gridiron football player, heart condition.
 * Al Sears, 80, American saxophonist.
 * Leongino Unzaim, 64, Paraguayan football player.

24

 * Ray Goulding, 68, American comedian, kidney failure.
 * Jennie Lee, 61, American stripteaser, cancer.
 * John Louis Morkovsky, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, stroke.
 * Alice Sapritch, 73, French actress, cancer.
 * An Wang, 70, Chinese-American computer engineer, cancer.

25

 * Len Astill, 73, English footballer.
 * Karl Brown, 93, American filmmaker.
 * George Clayden, 86, Australian footballer.
 * Carl Emmermann, 75, German U-boat commander during World War II.
 * David Evans, 56, English cricket player.
 * Bertil Linde, 83, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Charles Lucet, 79, French diplomat.

26

 * Chet Brewer, 83, American baseball player.
 * Tris Coffin, 80, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Halston, 57, American fashion designer, AIDS.
 * Brūno Kalniņš, 90, Russian-Swedish politician.
 * Michel Mirowski, 65, Polish-born American physician, multiple myeloma.
 * Maniben Patel, 86, Indian independence activist and politician.
 * Alan Solem, 58, American malacologist.

27

 * Percy Beard, 82, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Václav Bubník, 64, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
 * Marilyn Buferd, 65, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Alfred Earle, 82, British RAF officer.
 * Colin Jamieson, 66, Australian politician.
 * František Kopečný, 80, Czechoslovak linguist.
 * Ray Kuka, 68, American basketball player.
 * Lester James Maitland, 91, American aviator.

28

 * George Arthur, 65, Australian football player.
 * Gino Cappello, 69, Italian footballer.
 * Thomas Cree, 75, Australian Olympic rower (1936).
 * Henry Hecksher, 79, American intelligence officer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Johnny Neun, 89, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Kurt Scharf, 87, German Lutheran prelate.
 * Helene Whitney, 75, American actress, pneumonia.

29

 * Adoor Bhasi, 63, Indian actor and film director, diabetes.
 * Barbara Baer Capitman, 69, American community activist, heart failure.
 * Joseph Hilger, 86–87, Luxembourgian Olympic runner (1924).
 * Phil Masi, 74, American baseball player.
 * Alain Oulman, 61, Portuguese songwriter.
 * Archie Strimel, 71, American football player.

30

 * Thea Bowman, 52, American Roman Catholic evangelist, cancer.
 * Harry Bridges, 88, Australian-American unionist.
 * Edvin Hansen, 70, Danish footballer.
 * Joseph O. Hirschfelder, 78, American nuclear physicist.
 * Eberhard Klagemann, 85, German film producer.
 * Vladimir Stolnikov, 56, Soviet boxer.

31

 * Piera Aulagnier, 66, French psychologist, cancer.
 * Pierre Destailles, 80, French film, stage and television actor.
 * John Hawkes, 90, Australian tennis player.
 * Horace Hazell, 80, English cricket player.
 * Knut Ansgar Nelson, 83, Danish-Swedish Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Heinz-Günter Wittmann, 63, German biochemist.