Deaths in April 1990
# Deaths in April 1990

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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

## April 1990

### 1

* Benito Díaz, 91, Spanish footballer.
* Lillian Miller, 92, American television personality.
* Vince Pacewic, 69, American football player.
* Carlos Peucelle, 81, Argentine footballer.
* Bracha Tzfira, 79, Israeli musician and actress.
* Charles Spain Verral, 85, Canadian author.
* Russell Vis, 89, American wrestler.

### 2

* Rafael Lorente de No, 87, Spanish neuroscientist.
* Aldo Fabrizi, 84, Italian actor and film director.
* Vanda Godsell, 67, English actress.
* Peter Jones, 60, British broadcaster.
* John Milton Roberts, 73, American anthropologist.

### 3

* Edward Carlson, 78, American businessman, cancer.
* Arthur Houghton, 83, American industrialist.
* Clair Huffaker, 63, American screenwriter.
* Willie Musarurwa, 62, Zimbabwean journalist.
* Sloan Nibley, 81, American screenwriter.
* Sarah Vaughan, 66, American singer, lung cancer.
* Otha Wearin, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1933–1939).

### 4

* Leonid Dushkin, 79, Soviet rocket scientist.
* Mark Fradkin, 75, Soviet composer.
* Hubert Ogunde, 73, Nigerian theatre manager.
* Bernhard Rensch, 90, German evolutionary biologist.
* Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 90, American businessman and politician, secretary of commerce (1968–1969), cardiac arrest.
* Paul V. Yoder, 81, American musician.

### 5

* Carsten Byhring, 71, Norwegian actor, cancer.
* A. B. Masilamani, 75, Indian baptist pastor and evangelist.
* Louis Nelson, 87, American trombonist, traffic collision.
* Lev Skvirsky, 86, Soviet general.

### 6

* Robert Abernathy, 65, American science fiction author.
* Peter Doherty, 76, Northern Irish football player.
* James MacNabb, 88, British Olympic rower (1924).
* Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, 85, Brazilian football playler.
* B. T. Ranadive, 85, Indian politician.
* Yevgeny Savitsky, 79, Soviet fighter ace during World War II.
* Alfred Sohn-Rethel, 91, French-German economist.
* Zeydin Yusup, 26, Uyghur independence activist, killed in action.

### 7

* J. Broward Culpepper, 82, American academic.
* Ronald Evans, 56, American astronaut (Apollo 17), heart attack.
* Kristian Gestrin, 60, Finnish judge and politician.
* Dick Lundy, 82, American animator.
* Arthur B. Singer, 72, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.

### 8

* Emerson Greenaway, 83, American librarian.
* Herman Jessor, 95, American architect.
* Bill Kelly, 91, American baseball player.
* Hans Korte, 90, German general.
* J. Kenneth Robinson, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1985), pancreatic cancer.
* Bellan Roos, 88, Swedish actress.
* Ernest Steward, 76-79, British cinematographer.
* Ryan White, 18, American HIV/AIDS poster child, AIDS.
* Zamazaan, 24-25, French Thoroughbred racehorse.

### 9

* Aldo Bertocco, 78, Italian-French racing cyclist.
* Jack Dermody, 79, Australian footballer.
* John Henry Faulk, 76, American radio personality, cancer.
* Yngve Lindegren, 77, Swedish football player.
* James V. McConnell, 64, American zoologist, target of Ted Kaczynski.
* Mikio Narita, 55, Japanese actor, linitis plastica.
* Chips Sobek, 70, American basketball player.
* Astrid Sommer, 83, Norwegian actress.

### 10

* Margarete Adler, 94, Austrian Olympic swimmer and diver (1912, 1924).
* Sir Hugh Trefusis Brassey, 74, British soldier and magistrate.
* Fortune Gordien, 67, American Olympic discus thrower (1948, 1956).
* Gerhard Schrader, 87, German chemist.

### 11

* Harold Ballard, 86, Canadian sports executive.
* Klaas Bolt, 63, Dutch organist.
* Ronald Jasper, 72, British Anglican priest.
* Ivar Lo-Johansson, 89, Swedish writer.
* Margaret Carnegie Miller, 93, American heiress (Carnegie Corporation of New York).
* Phyllis Munday, 95, Canadian mountaineer, explorer, and humanitarian.
* Natalino Sapegno, 88, Literary critic and Italian academician.

### 12

* John Brown, 74, New Zealand racing cyclist.
* Geoffrey Harrison, 81, British diplomat.
* Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, 89, Japanese poet and film critic.
* Jef Lahaye, 57, Dutch racing cyclist.
* Otto Neumann, 87, German Olympic runner (1928).
* Johnny Reder, 80, Polish-American baseball player, heart disease.
* Irving Terjesen, 75, American basketball player.
* Luis Trenker, 97, Italian film producer, writer, actor, and Olympian.
* Albert van Schendel, 77, Dutch racing cyclist.

### 13

* Sundaram Balachander, 63, Indian musician and filmmaker, heart attack.
* Ivan A. Elliott, 100, American lawyer and politician.
* István Lovrics, 62, Hungarian basketball player.
* Hans Reinerth, 89, German nazi archaeologist.
* Ratomir Čabrić, 71, Yugoslav footballer.

### 14

* Ahmed Balafrej, 81, Moroccan politician, prime minister (1958).
* Mario Frustalupi, 47, Italian footballer, traffic collision.
* Thurston Harris, 58, American singer, heart attack.
* Martin Kessel, 89, German writer.
* Alv Kjøs, 95, Norwegian politician.
* Günther Krupkat, 84, German science fiction author.
* Georges Lacombe, 87, French film director.
* Flor Lambrechts, 80, Belgian footballer.
* Doris Lusk, 73, New Zealand artist.
* Olabisi Onabanjo, 63, Nigerian politician.
* Marco Aurelio Robles, 84, Panamanian politician, president (1964–1968).
* Sabicas, 78, Spanish guitarist, pneumonia.

### 15

* Ulrich Becher, 80, German author.
* Jock Bruce-Gardyne, 60, British politician, brain cancer.
* Anna Carena, 91, Italian actress.
* Greta Garbo, 84, Swedish-American actress (A Woman of Affairs, Anna Christie, Camille), pneumonia.
* Helmut Lemke, 82, German politician.
* Spark Matsunaga, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 1977), prostate cancer.
* Lawson P. Ramage, 81, American naval admiral, cancer.

### 16

* Peter J. Grant, 46-47, British ornithologist.
* Slim Keith, 72, American socialite and fashion icon, lung cancer.
* Stephen Shadegg, 80, American political consultant, cancer.
* Mary Talbot, 86, American entomologist.

### 17

* Ralph Abernathy, 64, American civil rights activist, blood clot.
* Joseph E. Dillon, 69, American politician.
* Joseph McMillan Johnson, 77, American art director, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Jafta Masemola, 60, South African anti-apartheid activist, traffic collision.
* Yuko Minamimura, 73, Japanese baseball player.
* Karl Walz, 89, German politician.
* Aubrey Williams, 63, Guyanese artist, cancer.

### 18

* John Antonelli, 74, American baseball player.
* Bob Drake, 70, American racing driver.
* Gory Guerrero, 69, Mexican professional wrestler, liver failure.
* Frédéric Rossif, 68, French film and television director.
* Robert D. Webb, 87, American film director.

### 19

* Dave Dexter, Jr., 74, American record producer.
* Sergey Filippov, 77, Soviet and Russianactor and comedian, cancer.
* John W. Schwada, 70, American academic.
* Georgios Vikhos, 75, Greek Olympic sport shooter (1936, 1948).

### 20

* Francis William Holbrooke Adams, 85, American lawyer and police commissioner.
* N. H. Gibbs, 80, British academic.
* Alex McCrindle, 78, Scottish actor.
* George Reindorp, 78, British Anglican prelate.
* Horst Sindermann, 74, East German politician.

### 21

* Johnny Beazley, 71, American baseball player, cancer.
* R. B. Braithwaite, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
* Salvatore Cascino, 72, Italian Olympic racewalker (1948).
* Erté, 97, Russian-born French artist.
* Frank Lausche, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969), governor of Ohio (1945–1947, 1949–1957), heart failure.
* Tadeusz Parpan, 70, Polish soccer player.
* Bogusław Psujek, 33, Polish marathon runner, fall.

### 22

* Bob Davies, 70, American basketball player.
* Bud Maxwell, 77, Scottish footballer.
* Rosalind Moss, 99, British Egyptologist.
* Albert Salmi, 62, American actor, murder-suicide.
* Gustaf Wejnarth, 87, Swedish Olympic runner (1924).
* Verda Welcome, 83, American politician.

### 23

* Paulette Goddard, 79, American actress, heart failure.
* Mason Ellsworth Hale, 61, American lichenologist.
* Vincent Joseph Hines, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate.
* Mary Turner Shaw, 84, Australian architect.
* Charlie Wilson, 57, English career criminal (Great Train Robbery), shot.
* Teodor Zaczyk, 90, Polish Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).

### 24

* Vytautas Alantas, 87, Russian-American writer, journalist, and political ideologue.
* Erik Eriksson, 75, Swedish footballer.
* Endel Pärn, 76, Soviet actor and singer.
* Kazem Rajavi, 56, Iranian human rights activist, shot.
* Vladimir Saprykin, 73, Soviet Red Army officer and war hero .

### 25

* Irving Fiske, 82, American playwright, stroke.
* Dexter Gordon, 67, American jazz musician, kidney failure.
* Rufus "Speedy" Jones, 53, American jazz drummer.
* Fred Klein, 92, Dutch painter.
* Bernard C. Schoenfeld, 82, American screenwriter.
* Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr., 90, American diplomat.

### 26

* Józef Kosacki, 81, Polish professor, engineer, and inventor.
* Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, 38, Colombian guerrilla leader, shot.
* Wesley Rose, 72, American record producer.
* John J. Winkler, 46, American philologist and Benedictine monk, AIDS.

### 27

* Tita Duran, 61, Filipino actress.
* Vladimir Kanygin, 41, Russian middleweight weightlifter.
* Alyce Mills, 91, American actress.
* Malwa Singh, 44, Indian wrestler.
* Bella Spewack, 91, Romanian-born American playwright.
* Vladimir Stoychev, 98, Bulgarian general and equestrian.
* Earl Wilson, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1941–1959, 1961–1965).

### 28

* Enrique Accorsi, 73, Chilean Olympic fencer (1948).
* Edwina Dumm, 96-97, American cartoonist.
* Peter Fuller, 42, British art critic, traffic collision.
* Neil Watson, 84, New Zealand politician.

### 29

* Enrique Almada, 55, Uruguayan actor and author, cancer.
* Max Bense, 80, German philosopher.
* Margaret Hance, 66, American politician, cancer.
* Carl Hellmuth Hertz, 69, German physicist.
* Sammy Lawhorn, 54, American blues guitarist.
* Elise Constance Mourant, 68, New Zealand artist.
* Ray Poat, 72, American baseball player.

### 30

* Ernst Berndt, 74, Czechoslovak track and field athlete abd Olympian.
* Ken Chisholm, 65, Scottish footballer.
* Herbert Jankuhn, 84, German archaeologist.
* Reidar Nyborg, 67, Norwegian Olympic skier (1948).
* Angami Zapu Phizo, 85, Indian-British Naga nationalist.
* Mario Pizziolo, 80, Italian footballer.
* Joshua Prawer, 72, Polish-Israeli historian.
* Paul Sears, 98, American ecologist.
* Josef Velek, 50, Czechoslovak journalist, drowned.
* Antoine Vitez, 59, French actor and theatre director.
* Archie Wright, 65, Scottish football player.
* Vasili Yermasov, 77, Soviet football player.
* Mark Zborowski, 82, Soviet anthropologist and spy.
