The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1990

1

• Desmond Brain, 80, Australian cricketer.^[1]
• Max Bulla, 84, Austrian racing cyclist.^[2]
• Ben Hill Griffin, Jr., 79, American businessman and politician.^[3]
• Dainin Katagiri, 62, Japanese-American Zen master, cancer.

2

• Arthur Fleischmann, 93, Czech-British sculptor.^[4]
• Shakey Jake Harris, 68, American musician.^[5]
• Reg Saunders, 69, Aboriginal Australian Army officer.
• Shin Shalom, 85, Israeli writer.

3

• Roberto Bertol, 72, Spanish football player.
• Gérard Blitz, 78, Belgian entrepreneur.
• William D. Dunham, 70, American general and flying ace during World War II.
• Frans Goedhart, 86, Dutch politician and journalist.^[6]
• Louis Page, 84, French cinematographer.^[7]
• Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 91, American astronomer, heart failure.^[8]

4

• Abraham Bernstein, 71, American politician.^[9]
• Hank Gathers, 23, American basketball player, ventricular tachycardia.
• Konstantin Konstantinovich Kokkinaki, 79, Soviet fighter and test pilot.
• Vasily Margelov, 81, Soviet general.
• Heinz Schnackertz, 78, German cinematographer.^[10]
• Harry Worthington, 98, American Olympic track and field athlete (1912).^[11]

5

• Albano, 67, Portuguese footballer.^[12]
• Edmund Conen, 75, German football player.^[13]
• Mala, 47, Pakistani singer.
• Timothy Mason, 50, English marxist historian of Nazi Germany, suicide.^[14]
• Gary Merrill, 74, American actor (All About Eve), lung cancer.^[15]
• Hans Christian Nielsen, 61, Danish footballer.^[16]
• Gina Pane, 50, French artist.^[17]
• Gloria Carter Spann, 63, American motorcyclist, sister of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.^[18]
• Peter Adolf Thiessen, 90, German chemist.^[19]
• Karel Thijs, 71, Belgian racing cyclist.^[20]
• William Appleman Williams, 68, American historian.^[21]

6

• Friedrich Hielscher, 87, German theologian.
• Taro Kagawa, 67, Japanese footballer.
• E. T. Klassen, 81, United States Postmaster General.^[22]
• Egill Knutzen, 75, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).^[23]
• Adam Papée, 94, Polish fencer and Olympic medalist.^[24]
• William Raborn, 84, American intelligence officer, Director of Central Intelligence (1965–1966).
• Joe Sewell, 91, American baseball player.^[25]
• Julian Spence, 60, American football player.^[26]
• Earl T. Wagner, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).^[27]

7

• Claude Arrieu, 86, French composer.^[28]
• Shuddhananda Bharati, 92, Indian religious philosopher.^[29]
• Shenork I Kaloustian of Constantinople, 76, Soviet Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (since 1963).
• Pancho Córdova, 73, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director.
• Çetin Emeç, 54–55, Turkish journalist, shot.
• Ruth Glass, 77, German-British sociologist and urban planner.^[30]
• Mordecai Gorelik, 90, Russian-American theatrical designer, cancer.^[31]
• Jay Lovestone, 92, Russian-American political activist.^[32]
• Luís Carlos Prestes, 92, Brazilian politician, heart attack.^[33]
• Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 89, South African politician.
• Salvatore Tripoli, 85, American boxer and Olympic medalist.
• Mihály Tóth, 63, Hungarian football player.
• Carl A. Wirtanen, 79, American astronomer.

8

• Erkki Aaltonen, 79, Finnish composer.^[34]
• Erich Hohagen, 75, German general and flying ace during World War II.
• Karin Kavli, 83, Swedish actress.
• Charles Krüger, 93, Luxembourgian football player.^[35]
• Jack Lindsay, 89, Australian-British writer.^[36]
• John Ben Shepperd, 74, American politician, cancer.^[37]
• Hein van Breenen, 60, Dutch racing cyclist.^[38]

9

• Georgios Costakis, 76, Soviet collector of Russian art.^[39]
• Abraham Solomon Halkin, 86, Russian-American-Israeli historian, pneumonia.^[40]
• Giorgos Joannides, 67, Greek-born American intelligence officer.
• Martial Singher, 85, French opera singer.^[41]
• Lou Vedder, 92, American football player.^[42]

10

• Tseng Kwong Chi, 39, Hong Kong-American photographer, AIDS.^[43]
• B. R. Deodhar, 88, Indian singer.
• Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, 83, British politician.
• Pat McDonald, 68, Australian actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Harro Ran, 52, Dutch water polo player.^[44]
• Otto Schuhart, 80, German U-boat commander during War II.
• Darbara Singh, 74, Indian politician.
• Lance Tingay, 74, British sports journalist, heart attack.
• Reg Wright, 84, Australian politician.

11

• Dan Archibong, 46, Nigerian soldier and politician, traffic collision.
• Muriel Dickson, 86, Scottish soprano.^[45]
• Pratul Chandra Gupta, 80, Indian historian.
• Dean Horrix, 28, English footballer, traffic collision.^[46]
• Edward Grady Partin, 66, American trade unionist.
• Oronzo Pugliese, 79, Italian football manager.^[47]
• Roy Schalk, 81, American baseball player.^[48]

12

• Bruce Barnes, 80, American tennis player.
• Rie de Balbian Verster-Bolderheij, 100, Dutch painter.^[49]
• Wallace Breem, 63, British author.
• Lamberto Cesari, 79, Italian-American mathematician.^[50]
• Jane Grigson, 61, English cookbook writer, cervical cancer.^[51]
• Eugene V. Klein, 69, American businessman.
• Rosamond Lehmann, 89, English novelist.^[52]
• Walter Orr Roberts, 74, American atmospheric scientist and astronomer, cancer.^[53]
• Alf Sherwood, 66, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
• Philippe Soupault, 92, French writer.^[54]
• Harry South, 60, English musician.^[55]

13

• Bruno Bettelheim, 86, Austrian-American psychologist, suicide by asphyxiation.^[56]
• Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley, 70, British hereditary peer.
• Albert De Cleyn, 72, Belgian football player.
• Ernst Goldenbaum, 91, German politician.
• Graham Martin, 77, American diplomat.^[57]
• Karl Münchinger, 74, German conductor.^[58]
• Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova, 85, Russian-British anthropologist.
• Gottfried Weimann, 82, German Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).^[59]

14

• Robert H. Bahmer, 85, American archivist.^[60]
• Wilhelm Baumann, 77, German handball player.^[61]
• Pete Close, 52, American Olympic runner (1960).^[62]
• Richard Cooper, 44, English cricketer.^[63]
• Harold Medina, 102, American judge.^[64]
• Yuri Sokolov, 29, Soviet Olympic judoka (1988) and criminal, killed.^[65]
• Aubrey Wisberg, 80, British-American filmmaker, cancer.^[66]

15

• Farzad Bazoft, 31, Iranian-British journalist and alleged spy, execution by hanging.
• José Antonio Bottiroli, 70, Argentine composer.
• Jim Ede, 94, British art collector.^[67]
• Loleta Fyan, 95, American librarian.^[68]
• Tom Harmon, 70, American football player.^[69]
• Mykola Makhynia, 77, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach.

16

• Ernst Bacon, 91, American composer.^[70]
• Wolfgang Clemen, 81, German literary scholar.^[71]
• Fritz Ewert, 53, German footballer.^[72]
• James Frank Gilliam, 75, American classical scholar.^[73]
• Angus Scott, 62, British track and field athlete and Olympian.^[74]

17

• Capucine, 62, French model and actress (The Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?), suicide by jumping.^[75]
• Samuel H. Friedman, 93, American journalist and labor union activist, pneumonia.^[76]
• Ric Grech, 44, British musician, liver failure.
• Nanette Guilford, 86, American opera singer, gastroenteritis.^[77]
• Mohamed Latif, 80, Egyptian football player.^[78]
• Jack Noren, 60, American drummer.^[79]
• Rose Marie Pangborn, 57–58, American food scientist, cancer.^[80]
• Carmelo Samonà, 64, Italian academic.^[81]

18

• Robin Harris, 36, American comedian and actor, heart attack.^[82]
• Bob Katter, Sr., 71, Australian politician.
• Charles Phelps Smyth, 95, American chemist.^[83]
• Eileen Soper, 84, English artist.^[84]
• Zacarias, 56, Brazilian actor.

19

• Oyinkan Abayomi, 93, Nigerian activist.
• Tiny Brauer, 80, American actor.
• James H. R. Cromwell, 93, American diplomat.^[85]
• Wilhelm Flügge, 86, German engineer.
• Leopold Neumer, 71, Austrian football player.^[86]
• Oulaya, 53, Tunisian singer and actress.
• Andrew Wood, 24, American singer, heroin overdose.^[87]

20

• Jason Boe, 61, American politician.^[88]
• Maurice Cloche, 82, French filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.^[89]
• Kenneth Mather, 78, British geneticist, heart attack.^[90]
• Wilhelm Neef, 74, German conductor.^[91]
• Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, 79, British banker and intelligence officer.^[92]
• Lev Yashin, 60, Soviet footballer, stomach cancer.^[93]

21

• Dessie Cullinane, 70, Irish footballer.
• Allan Roberts, 46, British politician, cancer.^[94]
• Mohammad Shahiduddin, 67, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and politician.
• Edward Wojda, 48, Polish wrestler and Olympian.^[95]
• Rayburn Wright, 67, American trombonist, composer, and conductor, cancer.^[96]

22

• Gerald Bull, 62, Canadian military engineer, shot.
• Maurice Fleuret, 57, French composer.
• Robert Karplus, 63, Austrian-American theoretical physicist.^[97]
• Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, 33, Colombian communist politician, homicide.
• Geoffrey Ostergaard, 63, British political scientist, leukemia.^[98]
• Cornelius A. Pickett, 87, American politician.^[99]

23

• John Dexter, 64, English theatre director.^[100]
• René Enríquez, 56, Nicaraguan-American actor, AIDS.
• John Jardine, 54, American gridiron football player, heart condition.^[101]
• Al Sears, 80, American saxophonist.^[102]
• Leongino Unzaim, 64, Paraguayan football player.

24

• Ray Goulding, 68, American comedian, kidney failure.^[103]
• Jennie Lee, 61, American stripteaser, cancer.
• John Louis Morkovsky, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, stroke.^[104]
• Alice Sapritch, 73, French actress, cancer.^[105]
• An Wang, 70, Chinese-American computer engineer, cancer.^[106]

25

• Len Astill, 73, English footballer.^[107]
• Karl Brown, 93, American filmmaker.^[108]
• George Clayden, 86, Australian footballer.
• Carl Emmermann, 75, German U-boat commander during World War II.^[109]
• David Evans, 56, English cricket player.^[110]
• Bertil Linde, 83, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.^[111]
• Charles Lucet, 79, French diplomat.^[112]

26

• Chet Brewer, 83, American baseball player.^[113]
• Tris Coffin, 80, American actor, lung cancer.^[114]
• Halston, 57, American fashion designer, AIDS.^[115]
• Brūno Kalniņš, 90, Russian-Swedish politician.
• Michel Mirowski, 65, Polish-born American physician, multiple myeloma.
• Maniben Patel, 86, Indian independence activist and politician.^[116]
• Alan Solem, 58, American malacologist.

27

• Percy Beard, 82, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.^[117]
• Václav Bubník, 64, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.^[118]
• Marilyn Buferd, 65, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Alfred Earle, 82, British RAF officer.
• Colin Jamieson, 66, Australian politician.
• František Kopečný, 80, Czechoslovak linguist.^[119]
• Ray Kuka, 68, American basketball player.^[120]
• Lester James Maitland, 91, American aviator.^[121]

28

• George Arthur, 65, Australian football player.^[122]
• Gino Cappello, 69, Italian footballer.^[123]
• Thomas Cree, 75, Australian Olympic rower (1936).^[124]
• Henry Hecksher, 79, American intelligence officer, Parkinson's disease.^[125]
• Johnny Neun, 89, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.^[126]
• Kurt Scharf, 87, German Lutheran prelate.
• Helene Whitney, 75, American actress, pneumonia.

29

• Adoor Bhasi, 63, Indian actor and film director, diabetes.
• Barbara Baer Capitman, 69, American community activist, heart failure.^[127]
• Joseph Hilger, 86–87, Luxembourgian Olympic runner (1924).^[128]
• Phil Masi, 74, American baseball player.^[129]
• Alain Oulman, 61, Portuguese songwriter.
• Archie Strimel, 71, American football player.

30

• Thea Bowman, 52, American Roman Catholic evangelist, cancer.^[130]
• Harry Bridges, 88, Australian-American unionist.^[131]
• Edvin Hansen, 70, Danish footballer.
• Joseph O. Hirschfelder, 78, American nuclear physicist.^[132]
• Eberhard Klagemann, 85, German film producer.
• Vladimir Stolnikov, 56, Soviet boxer.^[133]

31

• Piera Aulagnier, 66, French psychologist, cancer.^[134]
• Pierre Destailles, 80, French film, stage and television actor.
• John Hawkes, 90, Australian tennis player.
• Horace Hazell, 80, English cricket player.^[135]
• Knut Ansgar Nelson, 83, Danish-Swedish Roman Catholic prelate.
• Heinz-Günter Wittmann, 63, German biochemist.^[136]