Deaths in October 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * John Stewart Bell, 62, Northern Irish physicist, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Edmund George Irving, 80, British hydrographer.
 * Andrzej Krzanowski, 39, Polish composer.
 * Augustin Laurent, 94, French politician.
 * Curtis LeMay, 83, American general, heart attack.
 * Russell Thacher, 71, American film producer (Soylent Green), complications from surgery.
 * Tommy Thompson, 63, American football player, cancer.

2

 * Peter Herman Adler, 90, Austrian-born American conductor.
 * Xosé María Díaz Castro, 76, Galician poet and translator.
 * John Groff, 100, American general, heart attack.
 * Loni Nest, 75, German actress.
 * Isolina Rondón, 77, Puerto Rican nationalist.
 * Fred Rwigyema, 33, Rwandan soldier, shot.
 * Heinie Schuble, 83, American baseball player.
 * Mercedes Simone, 86, Argentinian singer and actress.
 * Norbert Vesak, 53, Canadian choreographer, brain aneurysm.

3

 * Winslow Ames, 83, American art historian, heart attack.
 * Amy Bailey, 94, Jamaican civil rights activist.
 * Charlotte Boyle, 91, American swimmer.
 * Stefano Casiraghi, 30, Italian powerboat racer, boating accident.
 * Res Jost, 72, Swiss theoretical physicist.
 * Eleanor Steber, 76, American opera singer, complications from heart surgery.

4

 * Alyn Ainsworth, 66, British musician.
 * Jill Bennett, 58, English actress, drug overdose.
 * Avis Bunnage, 67, English actress.
 * Erwin Bünning, 84, German biologist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Luciano Catenacci, 57, Italian actor.
 * Roy Charman, 60, English sound engineer.
 * Jacques de Mahieu, 74, French-Argentine anthropologist and peronist.
 * Vance Dinges, 75, American baseball player.
 * Sergey Lapin, 78, Soviet diplomat.
 * František Nekolný, 82, Czechoslovak boxer.
 * Waldemar Philippi, 61, German footballer.
 * Ray Stephens, 35, American singer (Village People) and actor (The Great Space Coaster), AIDS.
 * Peter Taylor, 62, English football player, lung disease.

5

 * Félix Dafauce, 93, Spanish actor.
 * André Grabar, 94, Ukrainian-American art historian.
 * Dixie Howell, 70, American baseball player.
 * Yoshio Kondo, 80, American Biologist and malacologist.
 * J. Murray Mitchell, 62, American climatologist.
 * Sam Taylor, 74, American saxophonist.
 * Ramkumar Verma, 85, Hindi poet.
 * Đorđe Vujadinović, 80, Yugoslav football player.
 * Jan Hendrik Waszink, 81, Dutch Latin scholar.

6

 * Märta Dorff, 81, Swedish film actress.
 * Asser Fagerström, 78, Finnish pianist, composer and actor.
 * James E. Newcom, 85, American film editor.
 * Danny Rodriguez, 22, American Christian rapper, shot.
 * Richard P. Ross Jr., 84, American general.
 * Henryk Vogelfanger, 86, Polish actor.
 * Bahriye Üçok, 70-71, Turkish politician and journalist, assassinated.

7

 * Chiara Badano, 18, Italian Catholic activist, osteosarcoma, bone cancer.
 * Bellarmino Bagatti, 84, Italian archaeologist.
 * Darrel Brown, 67, American basketball player.
 * Beatrice Hutton, 97, Australian architect.
 * Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, 78, Emirati politician, prime minister (since 1979).
 * Scott M. Matheson, 61, American politician, governor of Utah (1977–1985), multiple myeloma.
 * Grim Natwick, 100, American animator (Fleischer Studios), pneumonia.
 * Manuel Ramos Otero, 42, Puerto Rican writer, AIDS.

8

 * Juan José Arévalo, 86, Guatemalan politician, president (1945–1951).
 * Frank Cope, 74, American football player.
 * William Henry Harrison III, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1955, 1961–1965, 1967–1969), heart failure.
 * William James Jameson, 92, American judge.
 * Jimmy Mills, 96, Scottish-American footballer.
 * Robert F. Murphy, 66, American anthropologist, heart failure.
 * Kamalapati Tripathi, 85, Indian politician.
 * Eric Wennström, 81, Swedish hurdler.
 * B.J. Wilson, 43, English drummer, pneumonia.

9

 * Mildred Bayer, 81, American humanitarian.
 * Murray Bowen, 77, American psychologist.
 * John Brooks, 80, American Olympic long jumper (1936).
 * Georges de Rham, 87, Swiss mathematician.
 * Dessie Grew, 37, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
 * Markku Hakulinen, 34, Finnish ice hockey player, suicide by train collision.
 * Martin McCaughey, 23, Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
 * Richard Murdoch, 83, English actor.
 * Arnold Olsen, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971).
 * Géza Ottlik, 78, Hungarian writer and mathematician.
 * Boris Paichadze, 75, Soviet footballer.
 * Lars Thörn, 86, Swedish sailor.

10

 * Kenneth Cross (physiologist), 74, British physiologist.
 * Emil Josef Diemer, 82, German chess player.
 * Walter Hammersen, 79, German politician.
 * Dick Jorgensen, 56, American football official, cancer.
 * Irene Mayer Selznick, 83, American theatrical producer, breast cancer.
 * Jerónimo Mihura, 88, Spanish film director.
 * Wally Moses, 80, American baseball player.
 * Tom Murton, 62, American prison warden, cancer.
 * Floyd R. Newman, 99, American oil businessman.
 * Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 51, American politician, cancer.
 * Edward Szostak, 79, Polish basketball player.
 * Carlos Thompson, 67, Argentine actor, suicide by gunshot.
 * Josef Trousílek, 72, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.

11

 * Ichio Asukata, 75, Japanese politician.
 * Anatole Broyard, 70, American writer and journalist, prostate cancer.
 * George Corbett, 82, American football player.
 * Günter Kuhnke, 78, German submarine commander.
 * Ken Spain, 44, American basketball player, cancer.
 * Robert Tessier, 56, American actor, cancer.
 * Adri van Male, 80, Dutch footballer.

12

 * Rifaat el-Mahgoub, 64, Egyptian politician, shot.
 * Leonard Krieger, 72, American historian.
 * Leif Larsen, 84, Norwegian sailor.
 * Rahman Morina, 47, Yugoslav politician, heart attack.
 * John O'Brien, 65, New Zealand politician.
 * Frederick Rossini, 91, American thermodynamicist.
 * Bridget Bate Tichenor, 72, British surrealist painter and fashion editor.
 * Peter Wessel Zapffe, 90, Norwegian philosopher.

13

 * Lino Donoso, 68, Cuban baseball player.
 * Douglas Edwards, 73, American newscaster, bladder cancer.
 * Hans Freudenthal, 85, German-born Dutch mathematician.
 * Hans Namuth, 75, German-American photographer, traffic collision.
 * Le Duc Tho, 78, Vietnamese politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient (1973), cancer.
 * Lewis Veraldi, 60, American automotive engineer, heart attack.

14

 * Leonard Bernstein, 72, American conductor and composer (West Side Story), pneumonia.
 * Tom Brigance, 77, American fashion designer.
 * Leon Brown, 71, American basketball player.
 * Daniel Guilet, 91, French-American violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Irina Odoyevtseva, 95, Russian poet, novelist and memoirist.
 * Clifton Pugh, 65, Australian artist, heart attack.
 * Carin Swensson, 85, Swedish actress.

15

 * Tibor Berczelly, 78, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).
 * Helen Bray, 100, American silent film actress.
 * Sam Dolgoff, 88, Russian-American anarchist.
 * Wilhelm Magnus, 83, German-American mathematician.
 * David McCalden, 39, British-American far-right activist, AIDS.
 * William Edwin Minshall, Jr., 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1955–1974).
 * Gwen Nelson, 89, English actress.
 * Yu Pingbo, 90, Chinese literary critic.
 * Boris Piotrovsky, 82, Soviet archaeologist.
 * Delphine Seyrig, 58, French actress, ovarian cancer.
 * Om Shivpuri, 52, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Vital Van Landeghem, 77, Belgian football player.

16

 * Art Blakey, 71, American drummer, lung cancer.
 * Jorge Bolet, 75, Cuban-American pianist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Douglas Campbell, 94, American flying ace during World War I.
 * Dorothy M. Healy, 76, American historian.
 * Berl Huffman, 83, American sports coach.
 * Carl Just, 93, Norwegian journalist.
 * Blake Pelly, 83, Australian politician and businessman.
 * Roger Powell, 94, English bookbinder.
 * Giovanni Varglien, 79, Italian footballer.
 * Alexander Zakin, 87, Russian-American pianist, heart failure.

17

 * Ralph Bowman, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Denis Cordner, 66, Australian footballer.
 * Harry Fletcher, 80, Australian politician.
 * Seth Morgan, 41, American novelist, traffic collision.
 * Jordan Olivar, 75, American football player, cancer.
 * Tadashige Ono, 81, Japanese artist.
 * Paul Seabury, 67, American political scientist, kidney failure.

18

 * Michael Bigg, 50, English-Canadian marine biologist, leukemia.
 * Marie-France Dufour, 41, French singer, leukemia.
 * Nick Etten, 77, American baseball player.
 * Pyotr Fedoseyev, 82, Soviet philosopher.
 * Sol Furth, 83, American Olympic jumper (1932).
 * Sir Ben Lockspeiser, 99, British scientific administrator (CERN).
 * Harry Marker, 91, American film editor.
 * Heinz Oskar Vetter, 72, German politician.

19

 * Jerry Cronin, 65, Irish politician, Parkinson's disease.
 * Haim Gvati, 89, Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
 * René Highway, 35, Canadian dancer, AIDS.
 * Augusto Tiezzi, 80, Italian cinematographer.
 * Samuel Wilbert Tucker, 77, American lawyer.
 * Lew Worsham, 73, American golfer.

20

 * Colette Audry, 84, French writer.
 * Américo Hoss, 74, Hungarian-Argentine cinematographer.
 * Freda Jackson, 82, English actress.
 * Alma Theodora Lee, 78, Australian botanist and plant taxonomist.
 * Joel McCrea, 84, American actor, pneumonia.
 * Kona Prabhakara Rao, 74, Indian politician, cardiopulmonary failure.

21

 * Karl Egil Aubert, 66, Norwegian mathematician.
 * Tom Carvel, 84, Greek-American businessman.
 * Dany Chamoun, 56, Lebanese politician, murdered.
 * Eugen Haugland, 78, Norwegian triple jumper and Olympian.
 * Jo Ann Kelly, 46, English musician, brain cancer.
 * Lotar Olias, 76, German composer.
 * Brij Sadanah, 57, Indian filmmaker, suicide by gunshot.
 * Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, 69, Indian composer and guru, heart attack.
 * Athol Shmith, 76, Australian photographer.
 * Ruth Stockton, 74, American politician.
 * Frank Waddey, 85, American baseball player.

22

 * Louis Althusser, 72, French philosopher, heart attack.
 * Kamil Lhoták, 78, Czechoslovak artist.
 * Nikolay Rybnikov, 59, Soviet and Russian film actor, heart attack.
 * Frank Sinkwich, 70, American football player.

23

 * Norman Buchan, 67, British politician.
 * P. K. Kelkar, 81, Indian scientist.
 * Berthold Lubetkin, 88, Georgian-British architect.
 * Zephania Mothopeng, 77, South African political activist, lung cancer.
 * Dave Murray, 37, Canadian skier and Olympian, skin cancer.
 * Thomas Williams, 63, American novelist, lung cancer.

24

 * André Aumerle, 83, French cyclist.
 * Jim Clark, 63, American baseball player.
 * Boris Maluev, 61, Soviet and Russian painter.
 * John Sex, 34, American singer, AIDS.
 * Richard Tyler, 62, American sound engineer.

25

 * Ed Bagdon, 64, American football player.
 * Major Holley, 66, American bassist, heart attack.
 * Zara Mints, 63, Soviet literary scientist.
 * Bennie Oosterbaan, 84, American football player.
 * Alberto da Costa Pereira, 60, Portuguese footballer.
 * Ikey Robinson, 86, American banjoist.
 * Williamson A. Sangma, 71, Indian politician.

26

 * Lawrence Andreasen, 44, American diver, accidental fall.
 * Robert Antelme, 73, French writer.
 * Joan Brown, 52, American painter, blunt force trauma, accident.
 * Arne Dagfin Dahl, 96, Norwegian soldier.
 * Guillermo Garcia Gonzales, 36, Cuban chess Grandmaster, traffic collision.
 * Breandán Ó hEithir, 60, Irish writer and broadcaster.
 * Ödön Lendvay, 47, Hungarian basketball player.
 * William S. Paley, 89, American television executive, kidney failure.
 * Johnny Sanders, 68, American football executive, heart failure.
 * Harry Wilson, 88, American multi-athlete.

27

 * Chet Adams, 75, American football player.
 * Rafael Banquells, 73, Cuban-Mexican actor, director and TV producer.
 * Xavier Cugat, 90, Spanish musician, heart failure.
 * Jacques Demy, 59, French film director and lyricist, AIDS.
 * Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, 89, Austrian noble, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
 * Wacław Kowalski, 74, Polish actor.
 * Elliott Roosevelt, 80, American general and politician, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, heart failure.
 * Ugo Tognazzi, 68, Italian actor and filmmaker, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Béla Volentik, 82, Hungarian football player.

28

 * Aleksandra Chudina, 66, Soviet athlete, stomach cancer.
 * Ernst Rudolf Huber, 87, German jurist.
 * Kolau Nadiradze, 95, Soviet poet.
 * Geminio Ognio, 72, Italian Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).
 * Robert Jan Verbelen, 79, Belgian nazi collaborator during World War II.

29

 * Aleksei Alelyukhin, 70, Soviet flying ace during World War II.
 * Joseph Attles, 87, American actor.
 * Herbert Brodkin, 77, American producer and director of film and television.
 * Emrys Roberts, 80, Welsh politician.
 * William French Smith, 73, American lawyer, attorney general (1981–1985), cancer.
 * Juha Vainio, 52, Finnish musician, heart attack.
 * Volker von Collande, 76, German actor and filmmaker.

30

 * Wim Gijsen, 57, Dutch author.
 * Willy Jürissen, 78, German football player.
 * Harry Lauter, 76, American actor, heart attack.
 * Vinod Mehra, 45, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * Craig Russell, 42, Canadian drag queen and actor, AIDS.
 * Alfred Sauvy, 92, French demographer.
 * V. Shantaram, 88, Indian actor and filmmaker.
 * Tom Steele, 81, American stuntman.
 * Piroska Szekrényessy, 74, Hungarian pair skater and Olympian.
 * Kwok Tak-Seng, 79, Hong Kong businessman, heart attack.
 * Germaine Van Dievoet, 91, Belgian swimmer.

31

 * Carl Belew, 59, American country musician, cancer.
 * Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, 84, British diplomat.
 * Jim Foster, 55, American LGBT activist, AIDS.
 * Aya Kōda, 86, Japanese novelist, heart attack.
 * Hugh McPhillips, 70, American actor and television director, traffic collision.
 * Roger Price, 72, American humorist and author.
 * M. L. Vasanthakumari, 62, Indian singer, cancer.