The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1990

1

• Michel Arnaud, 74, French general, heart attack.
• Roar Berthelsen, 55, Norwegian long jumper.^[1]
• Carl Ekern, 36, American football player, traffic collision.^[2]
• Norbert Elias, 93, German sociologist.^[3]
• Michael Glenny, 62, British academic and translator, heart attack.^[4]
• Lotta Hitschmanova, 80, Czech-Canadian humanitarian, cancer.
• Robert Krieps, 67, Luxembourgish politician.^[5]
• Bárbara Mujica, 46, Argentine actress, heart attack.
• Tiger Joginder Singh, 71, Indian professional wrestler.
• Graham Young, 42, English convicted serial killer, heart attack.

2

• Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 44, Kuwaiti royal and sports administrator, killed in battle.
• Adonias Filho, 74, Brazilian writer.^[6]
• Al Guokas, 64, American basketball player.^[7]
• Norman Maclean, 87, American novelist.^[8]
• François Perrier, 68, French psychoanalyst.^[9]
• Edwin Richfield, 68, English actor.^[10]
• Nikolaus Riehl, 89, German nuclear physicist.
• Al Rosen, 80, American actor, cancer.^[11]

3

• Betty Amann, 85, German-American film actress.^[12]
• Nella Maria Bonora, 86, Italian actress.
• Bob Brown, 79, American baseball player.^[13]
• Thomas Dunne, 64, Irish politician.
• M. Ranga Rao, 58, Indian composer, cancer.
• Wilbur Schwartz, 72, American musician.
• George Stavrinos, 42, Greek-American illustrator, complications of pneumonia.^[14]
• Paul Watkins, 40, American cult member (Manson Family), leukemia.

4

• Ian Allison, 81, Canadian basketball player.^[15]
• As'ad Syamsul Arifin, 92-93, Indonesian ulama.
• Mathias Goeritz, 75, German-Mexican artist.^[16]
• Norman Malcolm, 79, American philosopher.
• Ettore Maserati, 95-96, Italian automotive engineer (Maserati).^[17]
• Wajahat Mirza, 82, Indian filmmaker.
• Pierre Nguyễn Huy Mai, 77, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ban Mê Thuột (1967–1990).^[18]
• John T. Wilson, 76, American academic.^[19]

5

• Ivan Blatný, 70, Czech-British poet.^[20]
• Aldo Grimaldi, 47-48, Italian filmmaker, cancer.^[21]
• Jacob J. Hecht, 66, American rabbi, writer and radio commentator, heart attack.^[22]
• Ellis T. Johnson, 79, American multi-sport athlete and coach.
• Kazimierz Kaszuba, 60, Polish football player.^[23]
• Zhou Keqin, 53, Chinese writer.
• George Quin, 76, Irish Anglican prelate.

6

• Charles Arnt, 83, American actor, cancer.^[24]
• Taylor G. Belcher, 70, American diplomat, cancer.^[25]
• Gordon Bunshaft, 81, American architect.^[26]
• George Dixon, 56, Canadian football player.
• Luis Lucchetti, 87, Argentine Olympic fencer (1928).^[27]
• Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr., 94, American general, bone cancer.^[28]
• Jacques Soustelle, 78, French politician.^[29]
• Antoon van Schendel, 80, Dutch road bicycle racer.^[30]
• Pat Wall, 57, English politician.

7

• Diego Carpitella, 66, Italian professor of ethnomusicology.^[31]
• Tamara Deutscher, 77, Polish-British writer.^[32]
• Phiny Dick, 77, Dutch illustrator and children's writer.^[33]
• Gebhard Müller, 90, German politician.
• Chepudira Muthana Poonacha, 79, Indian politician.

8

• Andrzej Dobrowolski, 68, Polish composer.^[34]
• Wallace Douglas, 78, Canadian producer, director and actor.
• Joseph H. Harper, 89, United States Army officer.^[35]
• Gopal Singh, 72, Indian Governor and politician.
• Urho Teräs, 75, Finnish football player.

9

• Dorothy Appleby, 84, American actress.
• William Bosworth Castle, 92, American physician.^[36]
• Joe Mercer, 76, English football player.^[37]
• Władysław Orlicz, 87, Polish mathematician.
• Art Van Tone, 71, American gridiron football player.^[38]

10

• Jacobo Arenas, 66, Colombian guerrilla leader, cancer.
• Harold Boyd, 89, Australian football player.
• Martha Dodd, 81, American writer.^[39]
• Cookie Lavagetto, 77, American baseball player.^[40]
• Helmut Lipfert, 74, German flying ace during World War II.
• David Martin, 57, Australian politician, lung cancer.
• Eugenia Ravasio, 82, Italian Roman Catholic nun.^[41]
• Joško Vidošević, 55, Yugoslav football player.

11

• Bonnie Baker, 73, American singer.
• Gonzalo Gaviria, 43, Colombian drug lord, shot.
• Asa S. Knowles, 81, American academic.^[42]
• Charles Marquis Warren, 77, American filmmaker, ventricular aneurysm.^[43]

12

• Paul Cuba, 82, American football player.^[44]
• Ethyl Eichelberger, 45, American drag queen, suicide by exsanguination.^[45]
• Christa Jungnickel, 55, German-American science historian.^[46]
• B. Kliban, 55, American cartoonist, pulmonary embolism.^[47]
• Dorothy Mackaill, 87, British-American actress, liver failure.^[48]
• Piotr Perkowski, 89, Polish composer.^[49]
• Sara Seegar, 76, American actress, cerebral hemorrhage.^[50]
• James Stewart, 80, Canadian basketball player.^[51]
• Fay Thomas, 86, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.^[52]
• Roy Williamson, 54, Scottish songwriter, brain cancer.

13

• Caridad Bravo Adams, 82, Mexican screenwriter.^[53]
• Dallas Bixler, 80, American Olympic gymnast (1932).^[54]
• Hedley Donovan, 76, American magazine editor.^[55]
• Inés Mendoza, 82, Puerto Rican writer, first lady (1949–1965).
• Alejandro Otero, 69, Venezuelan painter and sculptor.^[56]
• Jimmy Starr, 86, American screenwriter.^[57]
• Henry Swoboda, 92, Czechoslovakian conductor.^[58]

14

• Henry Crown, 94, American industrialist.^[59]
• John Fox, 38, American writer, AIDS.^[60]
• Lafayette Leake, 71, American jazz musician, diabetes.^[61]
• Sun Lianzhong, 97, Taiwanese general.
• Thomas Matthewman, 87, British Olympic sprinter (1924).^[62]
• Liu Xingyuan, 81, Chinese politician and general.

15

• Nina Bara, 70, American actress.
• Jimmy Carruthers, 61, Australian boxer, lung cancer.^[63]
• Lew DeWitt, 52, American musician, kidney failure.
• Bob Garbark, 80, American baseball player.^[64]
• Billy Hume, 54, Scottish football player.^[65]
• Inger Koppernæs, 62, Norwegian politician.
• Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, 76, Indian dancer.
• Viktor Tsoi, 28, Soviet singer, traffic collision.^[66]
• Louis Vola, 88, French bassist.^[67]

16

• Pierre Bonnet, 92, French arachnologist.^[68]
• Bobby Gordon, 54, American football player.^[69]
• Pat O'Connor, 65, New Zealand wrestler, cancer.
• Ernest Pogosyants, 55, Soviet chess player.
• Ricardo Saprissa, 89, Salvadoran-Costa Rican football player.^[70]

17

• Pearl Bailey, 72, American actress (Hello, Dolly!) and singer ("Takes Two to Tango"), cardiovascular disease.^[71]
• David A. Burchinal, 75, American general, cancer.^[72]
• Roderick Cook, 58, English actor and playwright, heart attack.^[73]
• Ian Handysides, 27, English footballer, brain cancer.^[74]
• Gordon Parsons, 63, Australian country music singer-songwriter.
• Maria Paudler, 87, German actress.
• Larry Weldon, 75, American football player.^[75]
• Graham Williams, 45, English television producer, shot.

18

• Grethe Ingmann, 52, Danish singer, cancer.
• József Kovács, 79, Hungarian hurdler.^[76]
• D. Scott Rogo, 40, American writer, murdered.
• Mary Shaw Shorb, 83, American biochemist.^[77]
• B. F. Skinner, 86, American social philosopher, leukemia.^[78]

19

• Olavi Alakulppi, 75, Finnish military officer and cross-country skier.
• Ilham Aliyev, 29, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Jim Cavanagh, 77, Australian politician.
• Ercole Gallegati, 78, Italian wrestler.^[79]
• Anna Rutgers van der Loeff, 80, Dutch writer of children's novels.^[80]
• Stephen Edward Smith, 62, American political consultant, lung cancer.^[81]
• Richard Strout, 92, American journalist, complications from a fall.^[82]

20

• Tim Barrett, 61, English actor.^[83]
• Bill Curry, 54, English football player.^[84]
• Rudolf Gellesch, 76, German football player.
• Maurice Gendron, 69, French cellist.^[85]
• Ray Johnson, 75, American gridiron football player.^[86]
• John La Nauze, 79, Australian historian.^[87]
• Ike Sewell, 86, American businessman (Uno Pizzeria & Grill), leukemia.

21

• Antonio Argilés, 58, Spanish footballer.
• Larry Buhler, 73, American football player.^[88]
• Bill Lasley, 88, American baseball player.^[89]
• Bob Uhl, 76, American baseball player.^[90]

22

• Luigi Dadaglio, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.^[91]
• Patrick McAlinney, 76, Irish actor.^[92]
• Edward W. Pattison, 58, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1979), liver cancer.^[93]
• Boris Shcherbina, 70, Soviet politician.

23

• Samuel J. Brown, 72, American fighter pilot during World War II.
• Yutaka Kanai, 30, Japanese Olympic runner (1984), accident.^[94]
• Karl Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, 86, German noble, head of the house of Löwenstein-Wertheim (since 1952).
• Parviz Natel-Khanlari, 76, Iranian politician.
• David Rose, 80, American songwriter ("The Stripper"), heart attack.^[95]
• Omero Tognon, 66, Italian football player.^[96]

24

• Victor Civita, 83, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher.
• Sergei Dovlatov, 48, Soviet writer, heart failure.^[97]
• Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, 89, British politician and artist.
• Harold Masursky, 67, American geologist.^[98]
• Nick Metz, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.^[99]
• Mickey Witek, 74, American baseball player.^[100]

25

• Talbert Abrams, 95, American photographer and aviator.^[101]
• Willard Leon Beaulac, 91, American diplomat, Alzheimer's disease.^[102]
• Morley Callaghan, 87, Canadian writer.^[103]
• David Hampshire, 72, British racing driver.

26

• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, 61, Iranian poet.
• Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, 90, British politician.
• Mário Pinto de Andrade, 62, Angolan poet and politician.^[104]
• Minoru Honda, 77, Japanese astronomer.
• Roh Ogura, 74, Japanese composer.
• Paul Potts, 79, British-Canadian poet.^[105]
• Retta Scott, 74, American animator.
• Tom Toner, 40, American football player, cancer.^[106]

27

• Ed Balatti, 66, American football player.^[107]
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, 84, Australian historian.
• Raymond St. Jacques, 60, American actor and filmmaker, lymphoma.^[108]
• Ramón Piñeiro López, 75, Spanish writer and politician.^[109]
• Armin Scheurer, 72, Swiss athlete and football coach.^[110]
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, 35, American blues musician and guitarist, helicopter crash.^[111]

28

• Sumitra Devi, 67, Indian actress.
• Larry Jackson, 59, American baseball player, cancer.^[112]
• Richard Lauffen, 83, German actor.^[113]
• Edmund H. North, 79, American screenwriter.^[114]
• Rosely Roth, 31, Brazilian LGBT activist, suicide.
• Paul Rowe, 73, Canadian football player.
• Victorio Spinetto, 79, Argentine footballer.^[115]
• Eva Stiberg, 69, Swedish actress.^[116]
• Willy Vandersteen, 77, Belgian cartoonist (Spike and Suzy).^[117]

29

• Luigi Beccali, 82, Italian Olympic runner (1932).^[118]
• Manly Palmer Hall, 89, Canadian philosopher.^[119]
• Chin Fung Kee, 70, Malaysian civil engineer.
• Solomon Mikhlin, 82, Soviet mathematician, stroke.
• Sayyid Shahab al-DIn Mar'ashi Najafi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
• Juozas Vinča, 84, Lithuanian-American boxer and Olympian.^[120]

30

• Lou Garland, 85, American baseball player.^[121]
• Edmund G. Love, 78, American author, heart attack.^[122]
• Ch'ien Mu, 95, Chinese-Taiwanese historian and philosopher.
• Bernard D. H. Tellegen, 90, Dutch electrical engineer.^[123]

31

• Bert Assirati, 82, English professional wrestler, bladder cancer.
• Nathaniel Clifton, 67, American basketball player.^[124]
• James H. Donovan, 66, American politician, colon cancer.^[125]
• Henry From, 64, Danish footballer.^[126]
• Frank Hindman Golay, 75, American economist.^[127]
• Johnny Lindsay, 81, South African cricket player.^[128]
• Jack C. Rowan, 79, American football coach.
• Sergey Volkov, 41, Soviet figure skater and Olympian, stomach cancer.^[129]