Deaths in April 1990
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,