Deaths in September 1990
# Deaths in September 1990

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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.

## September 1990

### 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.

### 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.
