Deaths in September 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Buster Adams, 75, American baseball player, heart failure.
 * Afanasy Beloborodov, 87, Soviet general.
 * Arnoldo Gabaldón, 81, Venezuelan physician and politician.
 * Geir Hallgrímsson, 64, Icelandic politician, prime minister (1974–1978).
 * Stefán Kristjánsson, 66, Icelandic Olympic skier (1952, 1956).
 * Alex Levinsky, 80, American-born Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Edwin O. Reischauer, 79, American diplomat, hepatitis C.
 * Derviš Sušić, 65, Yugoslav writer.

2

 * John Bowlby, 83, British psychologist.
 * Sári Bíró, 83, Hungarian pianist.
 * Robert Holmes à Court, 53, South African-born Australian businessman, heart attack.
 * Marcus Cunliffe, 68, British scholar.
 * Erich Herker, 84, German ice hockey player.
 * Jože Javoršek, 69, Yugoslav and Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, and essayist.
 * Robert Francis Joyce, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Léon van Hove, 66, Belgian physicist.

3

 * Slava Amiragov, 64, Soviet Olympic rower (1952, 1956).
 * Marshall Bridges, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
 * Fappiano, 13, American thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Mieczysław Fogg, 89, Polish singer.
 * Betty Glamann, 67, American harpist.
 * The Minstrel, 16, Canadian-Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel, 80, British socialite, spouse of the prime minister (1963–1964).
 * Eugene Martynov, 42, Soviet singer, heart failure.
 * Wang Zhenhe, 49, Taiwanese writer.
 * Chen Tien, 67, Malaysian politician, Central Committee member of the Malayan Communist Party.

4

 * Ignacio Luis Arcaya, 78, Venezuelan lawyer and politician.
 * Lawrence A. Cremin, 64, American education historian, heart attack.
 * Irene Dunne, 91, American actress (The Awful Truth), cardioplegia, heart attack.
 * Turan Dursun, 55-56, Turkish author and critic of Islam, shot.
 * Alceo Lipizer, 69, Italian footballer.
 * Alden Whitman, 76, American journalist, stroke.

5

 * Allen Adams, 44, Scottish politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Beppo Brem, 84, West German actor, lung cancer.
 * Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, 82, British colonial administrator.
 * Alessandro Ciceri, 58, Italian Olympic sport shooter (1956).
 * Roderic Alfred Gregory, 76, British physiologist.
 * Jack Hildyard, 82, British cinematographer (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Geese, Topaz), Oscar winner (1958).
 * Graham Hough, 82, English literary critic.
 * Jerry Iger, 87, American cartoonist (Eisner & Iger).
 * Ivan Mihailov, 94, Yugoslav and Bulgarian revolutionary.
 * Karl-Heinz Peters, 87, German film actor.
 * Frank Waldman, 71, American screenwriter.

6

 * Madaram Brahma, 87, Indian poet and dramatist.
 * Issan Dorsey, 57, American Sōtō Zen monk and teacher, AIDS-related complications.
 * Tom Fogerty, 48, American guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival), AIDS-related tuberculosis.
 * Francisco Eppens Helgueras, 77, Mexican artist.
 * Jack Howells, 77, Welsh filmmaker.
 * Len Hutton, 74, English cricketer, complications from heart surgery.
 * Beniamino Maggio, 83, Italian actor.
 * Eiji Nakano, 85, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
 * Elias Nakhleh, 76-77, Israeli politician.
 * Herbert Spiegelberg, 86, German-American philosopher, leukemia.
 * Fernando Valenti, 63, American harpsichordist, heart attack.

7

 * Prince Filiberto, Duke of Genoa, 95, Italian royal.
 * Ahti Karjalainen, 67, Finnish politician, prime minister (1962–1963, 1970–1971), pancreatic cancer.
 * Earle E. Partridge, 90, American general.
 * Clärenore Stinnes, 89, German racing driver.
 * A. J. P. Taylor, 84, British historian, Parkinson's disease.

8

 * Gustav Gerhart, 68, Austrian football player.
 * Joe Gleason, 95, American baseball player.
 * Kathleen Gough, 65, British anthropologist, cancer.
 * Dimitar Mutafchiev, 87, Bulgarian football player.
 * Sven Rosendahl, 77, Swedish journalist, novelist and short story writer.
 * Boris Tenin, 85, Soviet actor.
 * Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 85, British children's author and illustrator.

9

 * Nicola Abbagnano, 89, Italian philosopher.
 * Molly Adair, 85, English actress.
 * Louis Awad, 75, Egyptian intellectual and a writer.
 * Doc Cramer, 85, American baseball player.
 * Samuel Doe, 39, Liberian politician, president (since 1986), torture murder.
 * Alexander Men, 55, Soviet theologian, murdered.
 * George Sime, 75, Scottish field hockey player.
 * Anatoly Sofronov, 79, Soviet writer.
 * Rimantas Stankevičius, 46, Soviet cosmonaut and pilot, plane crash.
 * Hugh Sutherland, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.

10

 * Charles Coleman, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Catharose de Petri, 88, Dutch mystic and spiritual leader.
 * Svend Madsen, 93, Danish gymnast and Olympic champion.
 * Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow, 82, German flying ace during World War II.
 * Zoltán Rozsnyai, 64, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.

11

 * F. F. Bruce, 80, Scottish biblical scholar.
 * Cai Chang, 90, Chinese politician and women's rights activist.
 * Myrna Chang, 40, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed.
 * Byron Eby, 85, American football player.
 * Julius Jacobsen, 75, Danish composer.
 * Iris von Roten-Meyer, 73, Swiss journalist, suicide.

12

 * Irena Eichlerówna, 82, Polish actress.
 * Ivica Kurtini, 68, Yugoslav Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).
 * Nancy Ryles, 52, American politician, cancer.
 * Athene Seyler, 101, English actress.
 * Charles Walker, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

13

 * Adda Husted Andersen, 92, Danish-American jeweler, silversmith, and metalsmith.
 * George Hardy, 78, Canadian-American labor leader, respiratory failure.
 * Marya Mannes, 85, American writer and critic.
 * Giancarlo Pajetta, 79, Italian politician.
 * Samuel S. Stratton, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1989).

14

 * Nazrul Islam Babu, 41, Bangladeshi lyricist.
 * Wim De Craene, 40, Belgian singer, suicide by drug overdose.
 * Varananda Dhavaj, 70, Thai royal.
 * Leonid Ivanov, 69, Soviet footballer.
 * Lotus Long, 81, American actress.

15

 * Ken Domon, 80, Japanese photographer.
 * Valentin Filatyev, 60, Soviet cosmonaut.
 * David Lester, 74, American biochemist.
 * Max Schäfer, 83, German football player.
 * Gerard Veldkamp, 69, Dutch politician.

16

 * James Francis Carney, 75, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
 * Jesús Evaristo Casariego, 76, Spanish writer and publisher.
 * Steve Condos, 71, American tap dancer, heart attack.
 * Semyon Kurkotkin, 73, Soviet general.
 * Oscarino Costa Silva, 83, Brazilian football player.
 * Harold Palin, 74, English rugby player.
 * John Staton, 88, American football player and businessman.
 * Ron Withnall, 75, Australian politician.

17

 * Lucien Barrière, 67, French businessman, cardiac arrest.
 * Oliver Butterworth, 75, American author, cancer.
 * J. F. Gates Clarke, 85, Canadian-American entomologist,.
 * Jackie Cox, 78-79, Scottish footballer.
 * Janet Hill Gordon, 75, American politician.
 * Angelo Schiavio, 84, Italian football player.
 * Loretta Clemens Tupper, 84, American actress and singer.

18

 * Gyula Décsi, 71, Hungarian politician and jurist.
 * Richard Eric Holttum, 95, English botanist.
 * Marjan Rožanc, 59, Yugoslav writer.
 * Ed Sadowski, 73, American basketball player, cancer.
 * Walter Thompson Welford, 74, British physicist.

19

 * Werner Janssen, 91, American conductor.
 * Donal Keenan, 71, Irish Gaelic games administrator.
 * Allan McKinnon, 73, Canadian politician, cancer.
 * Ian Moir, 58, Australian rugby player.
 * Hermes Pan, 80, American dancer and choreographer.
 * Walter Tucker, 91, Canadian politician.

20

 * Rosa Balistreri, 63, Italian singer.
 * Siegfried Behrend, 56, German classical guitarist and composer.
 * Claude Colette, 61, French racing cyclist.
 * Dick Gyselman, 82, American baseball player.
 * Lucien Konter, 65, Luxembourgian footballer.
 * Thomas McGrath, 73, American poet and screenwriter.
 * Attilio Micheluzzi, 60, Italian comics artist.
 * Jackie Moran, 67, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Ed Robnett, 70, American football player.
 * Robert Rodale, 60, American publishing executive, traffic collision.

21

 * Jacques-Laurent Bost, 74, French journalist, cancer.
 * Sumner Getchell, 83, American actor.
 * Frans Herman, 63, Belgian Olympic runner (1952).
 * Takis Kanellopoulos, 56, Greek filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Alexander Konstantinopolsky, 80, Soviet chess player.
 * Rosario Livatino, 37, Italian magistrate, murdered.
 * Tufail Niazi, 73-74, Pakistani singer.
 * Charles Calvin Rogers, 61, American Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, prostate cancer.
 * Robert L. Thorndike, 79, American psychologist, heart failure.
 * Xu Xiangqian, 88, Chinese general.

22

 * Raj Bahadur, 78, Indian politician.
 * John A. Danaher, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1939–1945).
 * Michael Swann, 70, British microbiologist.
 * Len Szafaryn, 62, American gridiron football player.

23

 * Hilliard Beyerstein, 82, Canadian politician.
 * William James Broughton, 77, New Zealand jockey.
 * Harry Z. Isaacs, 86, American businessman.
 * László Ladány, 76, Hungarian jesuit, China watcher, and author.

24

 * Kang Joon-Ho, 62, South Korean boxer and Olympic medalist.
 * Zlata Kolarić-Kišur, 95, Yugoslav writer.
 * Ladislas Smid, 75, Hungarian-French footballer.
 * Johnny Werts, 92, American baseball player.

25

 * Wilfred Burns, 73, British composer of film scores.
 * Stellio Lorenzi, 69, French screenwriter, cancer.
 * Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, 85, Canadian politician, stroke.
 * Sabyasachi Mukharji, 63, Indian judge and Chief Justice, heart attack.
 * Kaharuddin Nasution, 65, Indonesian politician.
 * Prafulla Chandra Sen, 93, Indian politician.
 * Giuseppe Valle, 86, Italian Olympic water polo player (1924).
 * Vjekoslav Vrančić, 86, Croatian politician.

26

 * Hiram Abas, 57-58, Turkish intelligence official, murdered.
 * Lothar Collatz, 80, German mathematician, heart attack.
 * Alberto Moravia, 82, Italian novelist.
 * Saya Zawgyi, 83, Burmese poet, writer, and academic.

27

 * John Aldam Aizlewood, 95, British soldier.
 * Marie-Thérèse Auffray, 77, French painter.
 * Matvey Blanter, 87, Soviet composer ("Katyusha").
 * Carlos Guichandut, 75, Argentine singer.
 * Seymour H. Knox II, 92, American academic.
 * María Agustina Rivas López, 70, Peruvian religious sister, shot.

28

 * Roy Francis Adkins, 42, English gangster, shot.
 * Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, 61, Indian musician.
 * Dan Davin, 77, English writer.
 * Ray Hendrick, 61, American racing driver, cancer.
 * Prince Karl of Leiningen, 62, German noble.
 * Larry O'Brien, 73, American politician and NBA commissioner, cancer.
 * Willy Schröder, 78, German discus thrower and Olympian.

29

 * Scott Bartlett, 46-47, American artist, complications from an organ transplant.
 * Jacques Boulas, 41, French racing cyclist.
 * Raffaele Forni, 84, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, traffic collision.
 * Lawrence Kasha, 56, American playwright, AIDS.
 * Freddie Kohlman, 72, American musician, cancer.
 * David Park, 54-55, British computer scientist.
 * Patrick Tierney, 86, Irish politician.

30

 * Alexej Čepička, 80, Czechoslovak politician.
 * W. F. R. Hardie, 88, Scottish philosopher.
 * Rudolf Jahn, 83, German politician.
 * Michel Leiris, 89, French writer, heart attack.
 * Rob Moroso, 22, American racing driver, traffic collision.
 * Shankar Nag, 35, Indian actor and filmmaker, traffic collision.
 * Phil Napoleon, 89, Early jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
 * Alice Parizeau, 60, Polish-Canadian writer, cancer.
 * Nels Potter, 79, American baseball player.
 * Ruth Cheney Streeter, 94, United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, heart failure.
 * Patrick White, 78, British-Australian writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1973).
 * Zygmunt Zintel, 79, Polish actor.