The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1990

1

• Arundhati Devi, 65, Indian actress, director, and singer.
• Carmen Hill, 94, American baseball player.^[1]
• Joe Hardstaff Jr, 78, English cricket player.^[2]
• Patrick Kelly, 35, American fashion designer, AIDS.^[3]
• Ernst Kuzorra, 84, German football player.^[4]
• Niyazi Sel, 81, Turkish footballer.^[5]
• T. B. Simatupang, 69, Indonesian National Armed Forces chief of staff.
• James W. Wood, 65, American aeronautical engineer and astronaut.

2

• Lawrence Alloway, 63, English-American art critic, cardiac arrest.^[6]
• Evangelos Averoff, 79, Greek right wing politician and author, heart attack.^[7]
• Bill Beckmann, 82, American baseball player.^[8]
• Dally Duncan, 80, Scottish footballer.^[9]
• Alan Hale, Jr., 68, American actor (Gilligan's Island, Hang 'Em High, Casey Jones), thymus cancer.^[10]
• Leonhard Merzin, 55, Soviet actor.
• Reginald Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton, 81, British politician.
• T. R. Raghunath, 77, Indian film director.
• Ben Reifel, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1971), cancer.^[11]
• Marianne C. Sharp, 88, American Mormon charity activist.^[12]
• Vladimir Ussachevsky, 78, Soviet-American composer.^[13]

3

• Loraine Boettner, 88, American theologian.
• Mauro Cía, 70, Argentine boxer and actor.^[14]
• Reuben Jones, 57, British equestrian rider and Olympian.^[15]
• Joseph A. Loftus, 82, American journalist, stroke.^[16]
• Peter van Steeden, 85, Dutch-American composer.^[17]
• William Wells, 81, English politician.
• Bandara Wijethunga, 50, Sri Lankan writer.

4

• Robert Adams, 56, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
• Lydia Bilbrook, 101, English actress.
• Henry Bolte, 81, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria.^[18]
• Alberto Lleras Camargo, 83, Colombian politician, president (1958–1962).^[19]
• Harold Eugene Edgerton, 86, American electrical engineer and academic.^[20]
• Bonnie Hollingsworth, 94, American baseball player.^[21]
• Florrinell F. Morton, 85, American librarian.
• Boris Nikolsky, 89, Soviet chemist.
• Olaf Ussing, 82, Danish actor.^[22]
• Wim Volkers, 90, Dutch football player.
• Alfred Michael Watson, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate.

5

• Alan Handley, 77, American television producer, heart attack.^[23]
• Lola Iturbe, 87, Spanish trade unionist, activist, and journalist.^[24]
• Arthur Kennedy, 75, American actor (Bright Victory, Peyton Place, Lawrence of Arabia), Tony winner (1949), brain cancer.^[25]
• Bartell LaRue, 57, American actor.
• Kléber Piot, 69, French racing cyclist.^[26]
• Robert G. Rayburn, 74, American academic and theologian, cancer.
• Jaroslav Rössler, 87, Czechoslovak photographer.^[27]
• Genrikh Sidorenkov, 58, Russian ice hockey player.^[28]

6

• Gordon Aitchison, 80, Canadian basketball player.
• Walter Anderson, 92, American baseball player.^[29]
• Tadashi Asai, 54, Japanese wrestler and Olympian.^[30]
• Ian Charleson, 40, Scottish actor (Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), AIDS.^[31]
• Pavel Cherenkov, 85, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (1958).^[32]
• Peter Cookson, 76, American actor, bone cancer.^[33]
• Hans Jaray, 83, Austrian actor and playwright.^[34]
• Gerald Mann, 82, American football player.
• Sophie Piccard, 85, Russian-Swiss mathematician.^[35]
• Jake Weber, 71, American basketball player.^[36]

7

• Tadeusz Brzeziński, 93, Polish-Canadian diplomat, pneumonia.^[37]
• Eero Böök, 79, Finnish chess player.
• Edward Ennis, 82, American civil rights lawyer, diabetes.^[38]
• Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, 89, British politician.^[39]
• Rose Kushner, 60, American journalist, breast cancer.^[40]
• Avraham Abba Leifer, 71, Romanian-American-Israeli rabbi.
• Bronko Nagurski, 81, Canadian-American football player, cardiac arrest.^[41]
• Joe Robbie, 73, American politician and football executive.^[42]
• Harry L. Shapiro, 87, American anthropologist.^[43]
• Napua Stevens, 71, American entertainer.
• Horace Stoneham, 86, American baseball executive.^[44]
• Johanna Töpfer, 60, German politician, suicide.

8

• Georgie Auld, 70, American musician, lung cancer.^[45]
• Mario Brignoli, 87, Italian Olympic racewalker (1936).^[46]
• Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, 87, German royal and art historian.
• Jaime Gil de Biedma, 60, Spanish poet, AIDS.^[47]
• Paul A. Kennon, 55, American architect, heart attack.^[48]
• Bernard Krigstein, 70, American artist.^[49]
• Raymond Krug, 65, French footballer.^[50]
• Johnny Sylvester, 74, American businessman.
• Terry-Thomas, 78, English comedian and actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Robin Hood, Bachelor Flat), Parkinson's disease.

9

• Paul Bauer, 93, German poet.
• Roger Bower, 86, British soldier.
• Northern Calloway, 41, American actor (Sesame Street), beaten, cardiovascular disease.^[51]
• Spud Chandler, 82, American baseball player.^[52]
• Rosemarie Clausen, 82, German photographer.^[53]
• Jim Gillette, 72, American football player.^[54]
• Rufus Mayes, 42, American football player, bacterial meningitis.^[55]
• Edward McTiernan, 97, Australian politician and judge.
• Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965–1971).^[56]
• Bazilio Olara-Okello, 60-61, Ugandan soldier and politician, president (1985).
• Shlomo Pines, 81, French-Israeli theologian.^[57]
• Robert B. Pirie, 84, American naval admiral.^[58]
• Cemal Süreya, 58-59, Turkish poet, diabetes.

10

• John Benham, 89, British athlete.^[59]
• Juliet Berto, 42, French actress, breast cancer.^[60]
• Mino Guerrini, 62, Italian film director.^[61]
• Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, 64, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
• Gene Phillips, 74, American musician.^[62]
• Liesel Schuch, 98, German singer.^[63]
• Otto Weidinger, 75, German nazi SS-obersturmbannführer during World War II.
• Lyle R. Wheeler, 84, American art director (Gone with the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank, Rebecca), five-time Oscar winner, pneumonia.
• Herbert Williams, 81, American sailor and Olympic champion.^[64]

11

• Carolyn Haywood, 92, American children's writer and illustrator.^[65]
• Earl D. Johnson, 84, United States Under Secretary of the Army.^[66]
• Ihsan Abdel Quddous, 71, Egyptian journalist, novelist and short-story writer, stroke.^[67]
• Kittens Reichert, 79, American actress.^[68]
• José Luis García Traid, 53, Spanish footballer, complications during surgery.

12

• Joseph Sill Clark Jr., 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1957–1969).^[69]
• John Hansen, 65, Danish footballer.^[70]
• Ralph Heikkinen, 72, American football player.
• Laurence J. Peter, 70, Canadian-American educator, stroke.^[71]
• Paul Pisk, 96, Austrian-American composer.^[72]

13

• Gaston Crunelle, 91, French flautist.
• Francisco Hormazábal, 69, Chilean football player and manager.
• Roy Jarvis, 63, American baseball player.^[73]
• Jenő Kalmár, 81, Hungarian footballer.
• Avraham Ofek, 54, Bulgarian-Israeli artist.^[74]
• Pierre Pascal, 80, French poet and translator.
• Gerhard Sturmberger, 49, Austrian football player.^[75]

14

• Ruth Bunzel, 91, American anthropologist.^[76]
• Sten-Åke Cederhök, 76, Swedish actor.
• Sabri Dino, 48, Turkish footballer, suicide.^[77]
• India Edwards, 94, American journalist.^[78]
• Ken Kilrea, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.^[79]
• Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, 82, British biochemist.
• Anno Smith, 74, Dutch artist.^[80]
• James Arthur Williams, 59, American antiques dealer, heart failure.
• John Witty, 74, British film and television actor.

15

• Bill Albans, 64, American Olympic athlete (1948, 1952).^[81]
• Mani Madhava Chakyar, 90, Indian performance artist and sanskrit scholar.^[82]
• Brainard Cheney, 89, American writer.^[83]
• R. R. Diwakar, 95, Indian politician and writer.^[84]
• František Douda, 81, Czechoslovak Olympic shot putter (1932).
• Gordon Jackson, 66, Scottish actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Great Escape, The Ipcress File), bone cancer.^[85]
• Donold Lourie, 90, American businessman and football player.
• Fred Mundee, 76, American football player.^[86]
• William O'Neal, 40, American FBI Black Panther Party informant, suicide by traffic collision.
• Peggy van Praagh, 79, British-Australian ballet dancer and choreographer.^[87]

16

• Lady Eve Balfour, 91, British farmer and organic farming pioneer.
• Bill Heaton, 71, English footballer.^[88]
• Clarence Janecek, 78, American gridiron football player.^[89]
• Robert Lamartine, 54, French footballer.^[90]
• Earl Naylor, 70, American baseball player.^[91]
• Jean Saint-Fort Paillard, 76, French equestrian and Olympic champion.^[92]
• Ruskin Spear, 78, English painter.^[93]

17

• Andreas Aulie, 92, Norwegian jurist.
• Fritz Brocksieper, 77, German musician.^[94]
• Danie Burger, 56, South African Olympic hurdler (1956).^[95]
• Anna Arnold Hedgeman, 90, American civil rights activist.^[96]
• Charles Hernu, 66, French politician.^[97]
• André Morice, 89, French politician.^[98]
• Léon Motchane, 89, French mathematician.
• Simon Nicholson, 55, British artist.
• Y. C. James Yen, 96, Chinese educator and organizer, pneumonia.^[99]

18

• Melanie Appleby, 23, English singer, pneumonia.^[100]
• Kim Chang-Hee, 68, South Korean weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
• Rusty Hamer, 42, American actor, suicide by gunshot.^[101]
• Edouard Izac, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1947), heart failure.^[102]
• Candy Jones, 64, American model and broadcaster, cancer.^[103]
• Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, 78, British explorer and botanist, ALS.

19

• Carlo Bagno, 69, Italian actor.
• Pierre Barbizet, 67, French pianist.^[104]
• Viña Delmar, 86, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.^[105]
• Arthur Goldberg, 81, American judge and diplomat, heart failure.^[106]
• Movses Gorgisyan, 28, Soviet Armenian independence activist and soldier, killed in battle.
• Aldo Gucci, 84, Italian businessman (Gucci), prostate cancer.^[107]
• Myles Horton, 84, American educator, brain tumor.^[108]
• Alexander Pechersky, 80, Soviet soldier and humanitarian.
• Rajneesh, 58, Indian mystic, heart failure.^[109]
• Alberto Semprini, 81, English pianist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Maharram Seyidov, 37, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Herbert Wehner, 83, German politician, diabetes.^[110]
• J. Ernest Wharton, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1965).^[111]

20

• Jack Arkwright, 87, English rugby player.
• Claude Auclair, 46, French cartoonist.^[112]
• Robert Donington, 82, British musicologist.^[113]
• Hayedeh, 47, Iranian singer, heart attack.
• Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, 102, Japanese royal and politician, prime minister (1945), heart failure.^[114]
• Hugh Ross, 91, American choral director.^[115]
• Barbara Stanwyck, 82, American actress (Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire, The Big Valley), Emmy winner (1961, 1966, 1983), heart failure.^[116]
• Fernand Vandernotte, 87, French Olympic rower (1932, 1936).^[117]

21

• Asbjørn Bryhn, 83, Norwegian police officer and resistance member during World War II.
• Frank Gervasi, 81, American writer and foreign correspondent, stroke.^[118]
• Trude Fleischmann, 94, Austrian-born American photographer.^[119]
• Patrick Mulligan, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate.
• Mark Sugden, 87, Irish rugby player.

22

• Gordon Buehrig, 85, American automobile designer.^[120]
• Giorgio Caproni, 78, Italian writer.^[121]
• James Dyson, 75, British physicist.^[122]
• Bill Ferrar, 96, English mathematician.
• Karl Frankenstein, 84, German-Israeli educator.^[123]
• Helmut Krausnick, 84, German historian and writer.^[124]
• Mariano Rumor, 74, Italian politician, prime minister (1968–1970, 1973–1974), heart attack.^[125]
• José Salomón, 73, Argentine football player.
• Roman Vishniac, 92, Russian-German-American photographer, colon cancer.^[126]

23

• Buzz Boll, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Clarence Bruce, 65, American baseball player.^[127]
• Allen Collins, 37, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), pneumonia.^[128]
• Wilhelm Dommes, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• Gerald Gibbs, 82, English cinematographer.^[129]
• Nikolaus Hofreiter, 85, Austrian mathematician.^[130]
• Charley Eugene Johns, 84, American politician, governor of Florida (1953–1955).^[131]
• Derek Royle, 61, British actor, cancer.

24

• Madge Bellamy, 90, American actress, heart failure.^[132]
• John Blacking, 61, British anthropologist.
• Helga Gnauer, 60, Austrian Olympic fencer (1960).^[133]
• Princess Teresa Cristina of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, 87, German royal.
• Gerry Johnson, 71, American actress and television host.^[134]
• Muhammad Juman, 54, Pakistani musician.
• Saadia Kobashi, 86, Yemenite Jewish community leader in Israel.
• Araken Patusca, 84, Brazilian football player.
• Shantilal C. Sheth, 77, Indian pediatrician and academic.

25

• Dámaso Alonso, 91, Spanish poet and literary critic.^[135]
• Ava Gardner, 67, American actress (Mogambo, The Night of the Iguana, The Killers), pneumonia.^[136]
• Edward C. Gleed, 73, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
• Miloš Hrazdíra, 44, Czechoslovak racing cyclist and Olympian.^[137]
• Joseph Lennon, 56, Irish politician.
• Alexander Lockwood, 87, American actor.^[138]
• Georges Mantha, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.^[139]
• John L. McCrea, 98, American naval officer during World War I and World War II, pneumonia.^[140]
• Andy Puplis, 74, American football player.^[141]
• John Ramsey, 62, American sports announcer, heart attack.

26

• Dodo Abashidze, 65, Soviet actor and film director.
• Hal Draper, 75, American socialist activist, pneumonia.^[142]
• Lewis Garnsworthy, 67-68, Canadian Anglican prelate.^[143]
• Bob Gerard, 76, English racing driver.
• Toninho Guerreiro, 47, Brazilian football player, stroke.^[144]
• Miloslav Ištvan, 61, Czechoslovak composer.^[145]
• Ned Miller, 90, American songwriter, composer, and actor.^[146]
• Lewis Mumford, 94, American historian.^[147]
• Philip Nichols, 82, American judge, heart attack.^[148]
• Boy Trip, 68, Dutch politician.^[149]

27

• Miklós Borsos, 83, Hungarian sculptor.^[150]
• Pit Corder, 71, British linguist.
• Helen Jerome Eddy, 92, American actress, heart failure.^[151]
• S. Charles Lee, 90, American architect.^[152]
• Steffen Thomas, 84, German-American artist and poet.^[153]
• Travis Webb, 79, American racing driver.
• Henry Winterfeld, 88, German-American writer.

28

• Joseph Payne Brennan, 71, American author and poet.^[154]
• Tibor Flórián, 70, Hungarian chess player.
• Nancy Gruver, 58, American bridge player.^[155]
• Puma Jones, 36, American singer, breast cancer.
• Jan Lambrichs, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.^[156]
• Alfred McCoy, 90, American gridiron football player.
• Chesley G. Peterson, 69, American Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.^[157]
• Edward Szymkowiak, 57, Polish football player.^[158]
• Casey Tibbs, 60, American cowboy and rodeo performer, bone cancer.^[159]
• F. W. Winterbotham, 92, British RAF officer and spy during World War II.^[160]

29

• Stan Batinski, 72, American football player.^[161]
• Elise Blumann, 93, German-Australian artist.^[162]
• Irma Brandeis, 84, American scholar of Dante Alighieri.^[163]
• Arnaud d'Usseau, 73, American screenwriter, stomach cancer.^[164]
• Hadwen Carlton Fuller, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1943–1949).

30

• M. A. B. Beg, 55, Pakistani-American theoretical physicist.
• Severino Canavesi, 79, Italian racing cyclist.^[165]
• John Lindgren, 90, Swedish skier and Olympian.^[166]
• João Uva de Matos Proença, 51, Portuguese diplomat.

31

• Muammer Aksoy, 73, Turkish academic.
• Ricardo Bordallo, 62, American politician and businessman, suicide.
• Rashad Khalifa, 54, Egyptian-American biochemist, stabbed.
• Yitzhak Klinghoffer, 84, Austrian-Israeli politician.
• Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 88, German-Brazilian zoologist.
• Ramon Olalkiaga, 91, Spanish footballer.^[167]
• Samuel C. Phillips, 68, American Air Force general, cancer.^[168]
• Hans Putz, 69, Austrian actor.^[169]
• Hazel Marguerite Schmoll, 99, American botanist.
• Dick Wilson, 55, American Oglala tribal chairman, kidney failure.