Deaths in September 1990

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.
• Afanasy Beloborodov, 87, Soviet general.
• John Wesley Burgess, 83, Canadian politician.
• Geir Hallgrímsson, 64, Icelandic politician, prime minister (1974–1978).
• Stefán Kristjánsson, 66, Icelandic Olympic skier (1952, 1956).
• Alex Levinsky, 80, American-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Seub Nakhasathien, 40, Thai conservationist, suicide by gunshot.
• Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu, 76, Indian writer.
• Clayton Oscar Person, 68, Canadian geneticist.
• Les Ramsay, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Edwin O. Reischauer, 79, American diplomat, hepatitis C.
• Maria Isabel Hylton Scott, 101, Argentine zoologist.
• Derviš Sušić, 65, Yugoslav writer.

2

• Emidio Angelo, 86-87, American cartoonist.
• Annette Ashberry, 96, British engineer and gardener.
• Tom Atkinson, 59, English cricketer.
• Sari Biro, 83, Hungarian pianist.
• John Bowlby, 83, British psychologist.
• Helena Braun, 87, German singer.
• Erich Herker, 84, German ice hockey player.
• Robert Holmes à Court, 53, South African-born Australian businessman, heart attack.
• Jože Javoršek, 69, Yugoslav writer.
• Mark Mauldin, 75, American baseball player.
• Jim Souness, 61, Scottish footballer and cricketer, climbing accident.
• Léon Van Hove, 66, Belgian physicist.

3

• David J. Acer, 40, American dentist, accidentally infected patients with HIV, AIDS.
• Slava Amiragov, 64, Soviet Olympic rower (1952, 1956).
• Marshall Bridges, 59, American baseball player, cancer.
• Elizabeth Douglas-Home, 80, British socialite, spouse of the prime minister (1963–1964).
• Fappiano, 13, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Mieczysław Fogg, 89, Polish singer.
• Alec Fong Lim, 59, Australian politician.
• Betty Glamann, 67, American harpist.
• Ernie Hambacher, 83, American football player.
• Victor Hooper, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Yevgeniy Martynov, 42, Soviet singer, heart failure.
• Hyman Schandler, 90, Russian-born American violinist.
• James M. Sellers, 95, American Marine.
• Sir James Eric Smith, 81, British zoologist.
• James T. Stewart, 69, American general.
• The Minstrel, 16, Canadian-Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Wang Zhenhe, 49, Taiwanese writer.

4

• Sir Henry Cooper, 80, New Zealand academic.
• Lawrence A. Cremin, 64, American education historian, heart attack.
• Irene Dunne, 91, American actress (The Awful Truth).
• Turan Dursun, 55-56, Turkish author and critic of Islam, shot.
• Dolly Green, 83, American philanthropist.
• Leslie Groves, 79, New Zealand cricketer.
• Willy Heldenstein, 94, Luxembourgian Olympic bobsledder (1928).
• Jin Xianzhai, 86, Chinese oncologist, sepsis.
• Alceo Lipizer, 69, Italian footballer.
• Luke Kercan Ofungi, 56, Ugandan police officer.
• Alden Whitman, 76, American journalist, stroke.

5

• Allen Adams, 44, Scottish politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Louis H. Ahrens, 72, South African geochemist.
• Beppo Brem, 84, West German actor.
• Alessandro Ciceri, 58, Italian Olympic sport shooter (1956).
• Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, 82, British colonial administrator.
• P. Felix Ganz, 68, American philatelist.
• Fitzhugh Green Jr., 72, American businessman, cardiac arrythmia.
• Roderic Alfred Gregory, 76, British physiologist.
• Graham Hough, 82, English literary critic.
• Charlie Huneke, 69, American football player.
• Jerry Iger, 87, American cartoonist (Eisner & Iger).
• Ivan Mihailov, 94, Yugoslav Bulgarian revolutionary.
• Leo J. Nowicki, 86, American politician.
• Pete Pavlick, 64, American baseball player.
• Alexander Robertson, 82, Scottish veterinarian.
• Frank Waldman, 71, American screenwriter.
• Hugh Wilson, 82, British RAF officer.

6

• Gyula Bereznai, 69, Hungarian mathematician.
• James Burge, 83, English barrister.
• Francisco Eppens Helguera, 77, Mexican artist.
• Tom Fogerty, 48, American guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival), AIDS.
• Efat Ghazi, 54, Iranian Kurdish refugee and politician, letter bomb.
• Jack Howells, 77, Welsh filmmaker.
• Sir Len Hutton, 74, English cricketer, complications from heart surgery.
• Kennedy Jones, 90, American guitarist.
• Eiji Nakano, 85, Japanese actor.
• Elias Nakhleh, 76-77, Israeli politician.
• Antonio Prío, 85, Cuban banker.
• Stan Roberts, 63, Canadian politician.
• Albert Gerald Sayre, 92, American radioman.
• Herbert Spiegelberg, 86, German-American philosopher.
• Al Veach, 81, American baseball player.
• E. F. Watling, 90, English translator.

7

• Angus Barbieri, 50-51, Scottish faster.
• Christopher Cox, 41, American writer, AIDS.
• Prince Filiberto, Duke of Genoa, 95, Italian royal.
• Édouard Hambye, 74, Belgian missionary.
• Ahti Karjalainen, 67, Finnish politician, prime minister (1962–1963, 1970–1971), pancreatic cancer.
• Michel Lewandowski, 76, German-born French footballer.
• Earle E. Partridge, 90, American general.
• Jane Stewart, 73, American businesswoman.
• Clärenore Stinnes, 89, German racing driver.
• A. J. P. Taylor, 84, British historian.
• Ushasri, 62, Indian radio personality.

8

• Toon Duijnhouwer, 78, Dutch footballer.
• Gustav Gerhart, 68, Austrian footballer.
• Joe Gleason, 95, American baseball player.
• Kathleen Gough, 65, British anthropologist.
• Pádraig Lennon, 67, Irish hurler.
• Dimitar Mutafchiev, 87, Bulgarian footballer.
• Sven Rosendahl, 77, Swedish writer.
• Victor George Springett, 73, Australian politician.
• Daisy Taugelchee, 80-81, American weaver.
• Boris Tenin, 85, Soviet actor.
• Daniel Valerio, 2, Australian murder victim.
• Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 85, British writer.

9

• Nicola Abbagnano, 89, Italian philosopher.
• Molly Adair, 85, English actress.
• Doc Cramer, 85, American baseball player.
• Samuel Doe, 39, Liberian politician, president (since 1986), torture murder.
• Charles Hanlon, 71, American politician, cancer.
• Eddie Hann, 44, Australian politician.
• Alexander Men, 55, Soviet theologian, murdered.
• 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.
• Hugo Tamm, 87, Swedish diplomat.
• Harvey Teno, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bert Wolton, 71, English cricketer.
• Len Wootton, 65, English footballer.

10

• Sir Lionel Brett, 79, Nigerian judge.
• Charles Coleman, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Svend Madsen, 93, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).
• Ernst-Wilhelm Modrow, 82, German flying ace.
• Henry T. Mudd, 76, American businessman.
• Zoltán Rozsnyai, 64, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.

11

• Lela Brooks, 82, Canadian skier.
• F. F. Bruce, 80, Scottish biblical scholar.
• Cai Chang, 90, Chinese politician and women's rights activist.
• Theodore J. Conway, 81, American general.
• Michael George Cooke, 56, American academic, traffic collision.
• Byron Eby, 85, American football player.
• Dan Jolly, 83, American politician.
• Edmund King, 83, English cricketer.
• Alois Kratzer, 83, German Olympic skier (1928).
• Myrna Mack, 40, Guatemalan anthropologist, stabbed.
• Iris von Roten, 73, Swiss journalist, suicide.

12

• Jason L. Honigman, 85, American lawyer, heart failure.
• Archibald Howie, 82, Canadian sailor.
• Ivo Kurtini, 68, Yugoslav Olympic water polo player (1948, 1952).
• Helmuth Raithel, 83, German Nazi soldier, traffic collision.
• Jim Romano, 63, American baseball player.
• Nancy Ryles, 52, American politician, cancer.
• Athene Seyler, 101, English actress.
• Elizabeth Twistington Higgins, 66, British dancer and artist.
• Charles Walker, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

13

• John E. C. Appleton, 84, Australian theatre and radio director.
• Barbara Cass-Beggs, 85, English-born Canadian singer.
• Percy Foor, 77, American politician.
• Joaquin Garay, 78, Mexican actor (The Three Caballeros) and singer.
• George Hardy, 78, Canadian-American labor leader, respiratory failure.
• Koichi Kawana, 60, Japanese landscape designer.
• Marya Mannes, 85, American writer.
• Giancarlo Pajetta, 79, Italian politician.
• Ivo Schaible, 78, German artist.
• Samuel S. Stratton, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1989).
• Arnfinn Vik, 89, Norwegian politician.

14

• Nazrul Islam Babu, 41, Bangladeshi lyricist.
• Ruby Boye, 99, Australian coastwatcher.
• Wim De Craene, 40, Belgian singer, suicide by drug overdose.
• Hilary Hook, 72, British soldier.
• Leonid Ivanov, 69, Soviet footballer.
• Lõrinc Jankovich, 82, Hungarian equestrian.
• Lotus Long, 81, American actress.
• Frank T. Mildren, 77, American general.
• Varananda Dhavaj, 70, Thai royal.

15

• Herb Agocs, 61, American football player.
• Jack L. Anson, 66, American interfraternity activist.
• Alfonso Catá, 52, Cuban ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Ken Domon, 80, Japanese photographer.
• Mick Donohue, 73, Australian footballer.
• Margit Eskman, 65, Finnish politician.
• José Ferré, 88, Puerto Rican businessman.
• Valentin Filatyev, 60, Soviet cosmonaut.
• Charles P. Henderson, 79, American politician.
• Felix Hope-Nicholson, 69, British genealogist.
• David Lester, 74, American biochemist.
• Salvacion Lim Higgins, 70, Filipino fashion designer, lung cancer.
• Hans Malmstrøm, 77, Danish swimmer.
• Max Schäfer, 83, German footballer.
• Gerard Veldkamp, 69, Dutch politician.

16

• William Blackadder, 75, Scottish rugby player.
• James Carney, 75, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, cancer.
• Steve Condos, 71, American tap dancer, heart attack.
• Archibald Drummond, 75, Scottish rugby player.
• Semyon Kurkotkin, 73, Soviet general.
• Harold Palin, 74, English rugby player.
• Hildegard Rosenthal, 77, Swiss-Brazilian photohournalist.
• Isabel Fothergill Smith, 99, American geologist.
• John Staton, 88, American football player and businessman.
• Annibale Vitellozzi, 87, Italian architect.
• Ron Withnall, 75, Australian politician.

17

• Ado Baltus, 72, Belgian architect.
• Lucien Barrière, 67, French businessman, cardiac arrest.
• Oliver Butterworth, 75, American author.
• J. F. Gates Clarke, 85, Canadian-American entomologist.
• Marion Cumbo, 91, American cellist.
• Jackie Cox, 78-79, Scottish footballer.
• Janet Hill Gordon, 75, American politician.
• Bill Hanley, 75, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
• Joseph T. Maras, 74, American football player.
• Karl-Heinz Reintgen, 74-75, German journalist.
• Angelo Schiavio, 84, Italian footballer.
• Akiko Shiga, 80, Japanese actress and singer.
• Loretta Clemens Tupper, 84, American actress and singer.

18

• Pauline Byrns, 73, American singer, cancer.
• Corinne Chochem, 82, American choreographer.
• Dinny Fagan, 84, Australian footballer.
• George Grimston, 85, English cricketer.
• Richard Eric Holttum, 95, English botanist.
• Charles Paul, 88, American composer.
• Marjan Rožanc, 59, Yugoslav writer.
• Ed Sadowski, 73, American basketball player, cancer.
• James Wreford Watson, 75, Scottish-Canadian geographer.
• Walter Thompson Welford, 74, British physicist.

19

• Eumelia Hernández, 76, Venezuelan unionist.
• Werner Janssen, 91, American conductor.
• Donal Keenan, 71, Irish Gaelic games administrator.
• Allan McKinnon, 73, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Hermes Pan, 80, American dancer and choreographer.
• Walter Tucker, 91, Canadian politician.

20

• George Allen, 41, Montserratian cricketer.
• Rosa Balistreri, 63, Italian singer.
• Siegfried Behrend, 56, German musician.
• Flo Cluff, 87, Australian trade unionist.
• Claude Colette, 61, French racing cyclist.
• Foxy Flumere, 78, American sports coach.
• Dick Gyselman, 82, American baseball player.
• Lucien Konter, 65, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Thomas McGrath, 73, American poet and screenwriter.
• Jackie Moran, 67, American actor, lung cancer.
• Ed Robnett, 70, American football player.
• Robert Rodale, 60, American publishing executive, traffic collision.

21

• Jacques-Laurent Bost, 74, French journalist, cancer.
• Donald Cawley, 61, American police officer, cancer.
• Chiang Fu-tsung, 91, Taiwanese educator and politician.
• Sumner Getchell, 83, American actor.
• Ellis Hagler, 82, American sports coach.
• Frans Herman, 63, Belgian Olympic runner (1952).
• Jack Hunter, 73, Australian footballer.
• Cynthia Jebb, Lady Gladwyn, 91, English diarist.
• Harold Jeghers, 85, American physician.
• Takis Kanellopoulos, 56, Greek filmmaker.
• Alexander Konstantinopolsky, 80, Soviet chess player.
• Rosario Livatino, 37, Italian magistrate, murdered.
• Arnold Matters, 89, Australian opera singer.
• Tufail Niazi, 73-74, Pakistani singer.
• Frank Quillen, 69, American football player.
• Charles Calvin Rogers, 61, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, prostate cancer.
• Oleg Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, 83, Soviet ornithologist.
• Robert L. Thorndike, 79, American psychologist, heart failure.
• John Wallace, 87, American sailor.
• Samuel J. Welsch, 88, American politician.
• Norman Wheeler, 75, British soldier.
• Xu Xiangqian, 88, Chinese general.

22

• William Anderson, 85-86, Scottish-born Australian politician.
• John A. Danaher, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1939–1945).
• Wiley Morris, 71, American country musician.
• Michael Swann, 70, British microbiologist.
• Len Szafaryn, 62, American football player.

23

• Pål Angell-Hansen, 65, Norwegian footballer.
• Hilliard Beyerstein, 82, Canadian politician.
• Bill Broughton, 77, New Zealand jockey.
• George Desmond Hodnett, 72, Irish musician.
• Harry Z. Isaacs, 86, American businessman.
• Betty Warfel, 62, American baseball player.

24

• Tim Archer, 93, Australian footballer.
• Kang Joon-ho, 62, South Korean boxer.
• Zlata Kolarić-Kišur, 95, Yugoslav writer.
• Carmen Nigro, 84, American chef and stuntman.
• Ladislas Smid, 75, Hungarian-born French footballer.
• Johnny Werts, 92, American baseball player.
• Meinhard von Zallinger, 93, Austrian conductor.

25

• Clara Mortenson Beyer, 98, American labor unionist.
• Frank C. Lynch-Staunton, 85, Canadian politician.
• Sabyasachi Mukharji, 63, Indian judge, heart attack.
• Kaharuddin Nasution, 65, Indonesian politician.
• Togyū Okumura, 101, Japanese painter.
• Prafulla Chandra Sen, 93, Indian politician.
• Giuseppe Valle, 86, Italian Olympic water polo player (1924).
• Vjekoslav Vrančić, 86, Croatian politician.

26

• Hiram Abas, 57-58, Turkish intelligence official, murdered.
• Angus Bellairs, 72, British herpetologist.
• Lothar Collatz, 80, German mathematician, heart attack.
• Rudolph J. Daley, 72, American judge.
• Cecil Gray, 88, Australian cricketer.
• Fazal Inayat-Khan, 48, Dutch psychotherapist and poet.
• Alberto Moravia, 82, Italian novelist.
• Charles Philipson, 61, Norwegian judge.
• Francisco Ruiz-Jarabo, 89, Spanish politician.

27

• John Aldam Aizlewood, 95, British soldier.
• Marie-Thérèse Auffray, 77, French painter.
• Matvey Blanter, 87, Soviet composer ("Katyusha").
• Tom Crouch, 74, Australian footballer.
• Carlos Guichandut, 75, Argentine singer.
• Seymour H. Knox II, 92, American academic.
• Ralf Männil, 65, Soviet geologist.
• Ernst Miescher, 84, Swiss physicist.
• Antonia Luzmila Rivas López, 70, Peruvian religious sister, shot.
• Mary Rotolo, 80, American writer, lung cancer.

28

• Roy Francis Adkins, 42, English gangster, shot.
• Ronald Bailey, 67, English cricketer.
• Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, 61, Indian musician.
• Dan Davin, 77, English writer.
• Ray Hendrick, 61, American racing driver.
• Prince Karl of Leiningen, 62, German noble.
• Graham Nicol, 83, Australian politician.
• Larry O'Brien, 73, American politician and NBA commissioner, cancer.
• Willy Schröder, 78, German discus thrower.
• Dorothy Thomas, 92, American author.
• John P. Vinti, 83, American theoretical physicist.

29

• Scott Bartlett, 46-47, American artist, complications from an organ transplant.
• Jacques Boulas, 41, French racing cyclist.
• Émile Dottrens, 90, Swiss zoologist.
• William Dring, 86, British painter.
• Collis Featherstone, 77, Australian engineer.
• Raffaele Forni, 84, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate.
• Herbert Hargreaves, 77, English cricketer.
• Lawrence Kasha, 56, American playwright, AIDS.
• Freddie Kohlman, 72, American musician, cancer.
• Hannes Koivunen, 79, Finnish boxer.
• Volodymyr Malanczuk, 86, Austro-Hungarian-born French Roman Catholic prelate.
• Al McLean, 78, American baseball player.
• David Park, 54-55, British computer scientist.
• Patrick Tierney, 86, Irish politician.

30

• Alexej Čepička, 80, Czechoslovak politician.
• Liesbeth den Uyl, 66, Dutch activist and politician.
• Ingvald Frøysa, 86, Norwegian footballer.
• W. F. R. Hardie, 88, Scottish philosopher.
• Rudolf Jahn, 83, German politician.
• Michel Leiris, 89, French writer.
• Al Lolotai, 70, American Samoan football player.
• Rob Moroso, 22, American racing driver, traffic collision.
• Shankar Nag, 35, Indian actor and filmmaker, traffic collision.
• Alice Parizeau, 60, Polish-Canadian writer, cancer.
• Nels Potter, 79, American baseball player.
• Clive M. Schmitthoff, 87, German-British legal scholar.
• Ruth Cheney Streeter, 94, American soldier, heart failure.
• Luke White, 5th Baron Annaly, 63, English cricketer.
• Patrick White, 78, British-born Australian writer, Nobel Prize recipient (1973).
• Zygmunt Zintel, 79, Polish actor.