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.^[1]
• 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).^[2]
• Alex Levinsky, 80, American-born Canadian ice hockey player.^[3]
• Edwin O. Reischauer, 79, American diplomat, hepatitis C.^[4]
• Derviš Sušić, 65, Yugoslav writer.

2

• John Bowlby, 83, British psychologist.^[5]
• Sári Bíró, 83, Hungarian pianist.^[6]
• Robert Holmes à Court, 53, South African-born Australian businessman, heart attack.
• Marcus Cunliffe, 68, British scholar.^[7]
• Erich Herker, 84, German ice hockey player.^[8]
• 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.^[9]

3

• Slava Amiragov, 64, Soviet Olympic rower (1952, 1956).^[10]
• Marshall Bridges, 59, American baseball player, cancer.^[11]
• 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.^[12]

4

• Ignacio Luis Arcaya, 78, Venezuelan lawyer and politician.
• Lawrence A. Cremin, 64, American education historian, heart attack.^[13]
• Irene Dunne, 91, American actress (The Awful Truth), cardioplegia, heart attack.^[14]
• Turan Dursun, 55-56, Turkish author and critic of Islam, shot.
• Alceo Lipizer, 69, Italian footballer.^[15]
• Alden Whitman, 76, American journalist, stroke.^[16]

5

• Allen Adams, 44, Scottish politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Beppo Brem, 84, West German actor, lung cancer.^[17]
• Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, 82, British colonial administrator.^[18]
• Alessandro Ciceri, 58, Italian Olympic sport shooter (1956).^[19]
• 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.^[20]
• Jerry Iger, 87, American cartoonist (Eisner & Iger).^[21]
• Ivan Mihailov, 94, Yugoslav and Bulgarian revolutionary.
• Karl-Heinz Peters, 87, German film actor.
• Frank Waldman, 71, American screenwriter.^[22]

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.^[23]
• Francisco Eppens Helgueras, 77, Mexican artist.
• Jack Howells, 77, Welsh filmmaker.^[24]
• Len Hutton, 74, English cricketer, complications from heart surgery.^[25]
• 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.^[26]
• Fernando Valenti, 63, American harpsichordist, heart attack.^[27]

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.^[28]
• Clärenore Stinnes, 89, German racing driver.^[29]
• A. J. P. Taylor, 84, British historian, Parkinson's disease.^[30]

8

• Gustav Gerhart, 68, Austrian football player.
• Joe Gleason, 95, American baseball player.^[31]
• Kathleen Gough, 65, British anthropologist, cancer.^[32]
• Dimitar Mutafchiev, 87, Bulgarian football player.^[33]
• Sven Rosendahl, 77, Swedish journalist, novelist and short story writer.^[34]
• Boris Tenin, 85, Soviet actor.
• Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 85, British children's author and illustrator.

9

• Nicola Abbagnano, 89, Italian philosopher.^[35]
• Molly Adair, 85, English actress.
• Louis Awad, 75, Egyptian intellectual and a writer.^[36]
• Doc Cramer, 85, American baseball player.^[37]
• Samuel Doe, 39, Liberian politician, president (since 1986), torture murder.^[38]
• Alexander Men, 55, Soviet theologian, murdered.^[39]
• 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.^[40]

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.^[41]
• Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow, 82, German flying ace during World War II.
• Zoltán Rozsnyai, 64, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.^[42]

11

• F. F. Bruce, 80, Scottish biblical scholar.^[43]
• Cai Chang, 90, Chinese politician and women's rights activist.
• Myrna Chang, 40, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed.
• Byron Eby, 85, American football player.^[44]
• Julius Jacobsen, 75, Danish composer.
• Iris von Roten-Meyer, 73, Swiss journalist, suicide.^[45]

12

• Irena Eichlerówna, 82, Polish actress.^[46]
• Ivica Kurtini, 68, Yugoslav Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).^[47]
• Nancy Ryles, 52, American politician, cancer.
• Athene Seyler, 101, English actress.^[48]
• 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.^[49]
• Marya Mannes, 85, American writer and critic.^[50]
• Giancarlo Pajetta, 79, Italian politician.^[51]
• Samuel S. Stratton, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1989).^[52]

14

• Nazrul Islam Babu, 41, Bangladeshi lyricist.
• Wim De Craene, 40, Belgian singer, suicide by drug overdose.^[53]
• Varananda Dhavaj, 70, Thai royal.
• Leonid Ivanov, 69, Soviet footballer.^[54]
• Lotus Long, 81, American actress.

15

• Ken Domon, 80, Japanese photographer.^[55]
• Valentin Filatyev, 60, Soviet cosmonaut.
• David Lester, 74, American biochemist.^[56]
• 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.^[57]
• Steve Condos, 71, American tap dancer, heart attack.^[58]
• Semyon Kurkotkin, 73, Soviet general.^[59]
• Oscarino Costa Silva, 83, Brazilian football player.
• Harold Palin, 74, English rugby player.
• John Staton, 88, American football player and businessman.^[60]
• Ron Withnall, 75, Australian politician.

17

• Lucien Barrière, 67, French businessman, cardiac arrest.^[61]
• Oliver Butterworth, 75, American author, cancer.^[62]
• J. F. Gates Clarke, 85, Canadian-American entomologist, .^[63]
• Jackie Cox, 78-79, Scottish footballer.^[64]
• Janet Hill Gordon, 75, American politician.^[65]
• Angelo Schiavio, 84, Italian football player.^[66]
• 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.^[67]
• Ed Sadowski, 73, American basketball player, cancer.^[68]
• Walter Thompson Welford, 74, British physicist.

19

• Werner Janssen, 91, American conductor.^[69]
• 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.^[70]
• Walter Tucker, 91, Canadian politician.

20

• Rosa Balistreri, 63, Italian singer.^[71]
• Siegfried Behrend, 56, German classical guitarist and composer.^[72]
• Claude Colette, 61, French racing cyclist.^[73]
• Dick Gyselman, 82, American baseball player.^[74]
• Lucien Konter, 65, Luxembourgian footballer.^[75]
• Thomas McGrath, 73, American poet and screenwriter.^[76]
• Attilio Micheluzzi, 60, Italian comics artist.
• Jackie Moran, 67, American actor, lung cancer.^[77]
• Ed Robnett, 70, American football player.^[78]
• Robert Rodale, 60, American publishing executive, traffic collision.^[79]

21

• Jacques-Laurent Bost, 74, French journalist, cancer.^[80]
• Sumner Getchell, 83, American actor.
• Frans Herman, 63, Belgian Olympic runner (1952).^[81]
• Takis Kanellopoulos, 56, Greek filmmaker, heart attack.
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky, 80, Soviet chess player.
• Rosario Livatino, 37, Italian magistrate, murdered.^[82]
• 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.^[83]
• Xu Xiangqian, 88, Chinese general.^[84]

22

• Raj Bahadur, 78, Indian politician.
• John A. Danaher, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1939–1945).^[85]
• Michael Swann, 70, British microbiologist.^[86]
• Len Szafaryn, 62, American gridiron football player.^[87]

23

• Hilliard Beyerstein, 82, Canadian politician.
• William James Broughton, 77, New Zealand jockey.^[88]
• Harry Z. Isaacs, 86, American businessman.
• László Ladány, 76, Hungarian jesuit, China watcher, and author.^[89]

24

• Kang Joon-Ho, 62, South Korean boxer and Olympic medalist.^[90]
• Zlata Kolarić-Kišur, 95, Yugoslav writer.
• Ladislas Smid, 75, Hungarian-French footballer.^[91]
• Johnny Werts, 92, American baseball player.^[92]

25

• Wilfred Burns, 73, British composer of film scores.^[93]
• Stellio Lorenzi, 69, French screenwriter, cancer.^[94]
• 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).^[95]
• Vjekoslav Vrančić, 86, Croatian politician.^[96]

26

• Hiram Abas, 57-58, Turkish intelligence official, murdered.
• Lothar Collatz, 80, German mathematician, heart attack.^[97]
• Alberto Moravia, 82, Italian novelist.^[98]
• Saya Zawgyi, 83, Burmese poet, writer, and academic.

27

• John Aldam Aizlewood, 95, British soldier.
• Marie-Thérèse Auffray, 77, French painter.^[99]
• Matvey Blanter, 87, Soviet composer ("Katyusha").
• Carlos Guichandut, 75, Argentine singer.^[100]
• Seymour H. Knox II, 92, American academic.^[101]
• María Agustina Rivas López, 70, Peruvian religious sister, shot.

28

• Roy Francis Adkins, 42, English gangster, shot.
• Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, 61, Indian musician.^[102]
• Dan Davin, 77, English writer.^[103]
• Ray Hendrick, 61, American racing driver, cancer.
• Prince Karl of Leiningen, 62, German noble.
• Larry O'Brien, 73, American politician and NBA commissioner, cancer.^[104]
• Willy Schröder, 78, German discus thrower and Olympian.^[105]

29

• Scott Bartlett, 46-47, American artist, complications from an organ transplant.^[106]
• Jacques Boulas, 41, French racing cyclist.^[107]
• Raffaele Forni, 84, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, traffic collision.
• Lawrence Kasha, 56, American playwright, AIDS.^[108]
• Freddie Kohlman, 72, American musician, cancer.^[109]
• David Park, 54-55, British computer scientist.^[110]
• 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.^[111]
• Rob Moroso, 22, American racing driver, traffic collision.^[112]
• Shankar Nag, 35, Indian actor and filmmaker, traffic collision.
• Phil Napoleon, 89, Early jazz trumpeter and bandleader.^[113]
• Alice Parizeau, 60, Polish-Canadian writer, cancer.^[114]
• Nels Potter, 79, American baseball player.^[115]
• Ruth Cheney Streeter, 94, United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, heart failure.^[116]
• Patrick White, 78, British-Australian writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1973).^[117]
• Zygmunt Zintel, 79, Polish actor.