Deaths in May 1990
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 1990
1
- Fred Blackburn, 87, British politician.
- Sunset Carson, 69, American actor.[1]
- Heciyê Cindî, 82, Kurdish linguist and researcher from Armenia.
- Ștefan Czinczer, 84, Romanian footballer.[2]
- Djalma Dias, 50, Brazilian footballer, cardiopulmonary arrest.[3]
- Sergio Franchi, 64, Italian-American singer and actor, brain cancer.[4]
- Lothar Geitler, 90, Austrian botanist.
- Oskar Kuhn, 82, German palaeontologist.[5]
- Rab Bruce Lockhart, 73, Scottish rugby player and academic.
- Jindřich Maudr, 84, Czechoslovak Olympic wrestler (1928, 1932)..[6]
- Frits Warmolt Went, 86, Dutch-American biologist.[7]
2
- Germain Bazin, 88, French art historian.[8]
- Ronald Berndt, 73, Australian anthropologist.[9]
- Ann Casson, 74, English actress.[10]
- William L. Dawson, 90, American composer.[11]
- Evert Johansson, 86, Finnish Olympic canoeist (1936).[12]
- Andy McPartland, 74, Australian rules footballer.[13]
- David Rappaport, 38, English actor (Time Bandits, The Wizard, The Bride), suicide by gunshot.[14]
- Giacomo Scalet, 80, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1936).[15]
3
- Carlos Cerutti, 21, Argentine basketball player, traffic collision.[16]
- Dovima, 62, American supermodel, liver cancer.[17]
- Audrey Ferris, 80, American actress.[18]
- Mathilda Guez, 71, French Tunisian-Israeli politician.
- Karl Ibach, 75, German politician.[19]
- Shōtarō Ikenami, 67, Japanese author, leukemia.
- Pimen I of Moscow, 79, Soviet patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (since 1970).[20]
- Charlie Richards, 79, Australian rules footballer.[21]
- Mary Lea Johnson Richards, 63, American theatre producer, liver cancer.[22]
- George Wilson, 84, American football player.[23]
4
- Luther Clifford, 66, American baseball player.[24]
- John Ormond, 67, Welsh poet.
- Emily Remler, 32, American guitarist, heart failure.[25]
- Jim Schelle, 73, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[26]
- Shepard Stone, 82, American journalist.[27]
- Johnny Wright, 73, American baseball player.[28]
5
- Endre Bohem, 89, Hungarian-American filmmaker.[29]
- Walter Bruch, 82, German electrical engineer and television pioneer.
- Ruy Duarte, 78, Brazilian Olympic modern pentathlete (1936).[30]
- Reginald Goodall, 88, English conductor.[31]
- Cecilia H. Hauge, 94, American nurse.
- Jean Keller, 84, French Olympic runner (1924, 1928, 1932).[32]
- Elton Rule, 72, American television executive (American Broadcasting Company).
- Karl Thielscher, 95, American football player.[33]
6
- Paul Blessing, 71, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).[34]
- Carlos de Cárdenas Jr., 57, Cuban Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1960).[35]
- Charles Farrell, 89, American actor, heart failure.[36]
- Lotte Jacobi, 93, Prussian-American photographer.[37]
- Verner Løvgreen, 79, Danish Olympic canoeist (1936).[38]
- Irmtraud Morgner, 56, German writer, cancer.[39]
- Eduardo Nicol, 83, Mexican-Catalan philosopher.[40]
7
- Ann Bishop, 90, English biologist, pneumonia.[41]
- Elizete Cardoso, 69, Brazilian singer and actress, cancer.[42]
- Maurice Carlton, 76, French Olympic sprinter (1936).[43]
- Ashley Lawrence, 55, New Zealand conductor.[44]
- Nicholas Sanduleak, 56, American astronomer, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
- Sam Tambimuttu, 58, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician.
- Charlie Walker, 78, English football player.
- Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, 60, Yugoslav royal, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
8
- Severt Dennolf, 69, Swedish Olympic long distance runner (1948).[45]
- Tomás Ó Fiaich, 66, Irish Roman Catholic cardinal, heart attack.
- June James, 27, American football player (Detroit Lions, Indianapolis Colts), traffic collision.[46]
- Luigi Nono, 66, Italian composer.[47]
- Edsard Schlingemann, 23, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1984), traffic collision.[48]
- Rudolf Sellner, 84, German actor.[49]
9
- Lü Wei, 23–24, Chinese diver, murdered.
- Pauline Frederick, 82, American journalist, heart attack.
- David Stuart Parker, 71, American territorial administrator, heart failure.[50]
- Patrick Piggott, 75, English composer.
- Misha Raitzin, 59–60, Soviet-Israeli-American singer, lung aneurysm.[51]
- George Kennedy Young, 79, British politician.
10
- Hilda Buck, 75, New Zealand cricket player.[52]
- Walter Mahan, 87, American football player (Frankford Yellow Jackets).[53]
- Susan Oliver, 58, American actress and aviator, colorectal cancer.[54]
- Walker Percy, 73, American philosophical writer, prostate cancer.[55]
11
- Gérardo Apruzzese, 87, French Olympic wrestler (1924).[56]
- Stratos Dionysiou, 54, Greek singer, aortic aneurysm.
- Heidemarie Hatheyer, 78, Austrian actress.[57]
- Winford Stokes, 39, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- David Wade, 78, American general.[58]
- Harry Whittle, 68, British hurdler and Olympian (1948, 1952).[59]
- Hanne Wieder, 65, German actress, cancer.
- Venedikt Yerofeyev, 51, Soviet writer and dissident, throat cancer.[60]
12
- Bill Bufalino, 72, American Mafia lawyer, leukemia.
- John E. Davis, 77, American politician, governor of North Dakota (1957–1961).[61]
- Andrei Kirilenko, 83, Soviet politician.
- Nate Monaster, 78, American scriptwriter.[62]
- Anthony Masters, 70, British production designer and set decorator.
- Albert Öberg, 101, Swedish Olympic athlete (1912).[63]
- Earl Seibert, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings), brain cancer.[64]
13
- Jorge Garate, 72, Argentine film editor.
- Albert Hendrickx, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.[65]
- Ray Jennison, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
- Hans Raff, 79, German Olympic runner (1936).[66]
14
- André Amellér, 78, French composer.[67]
- Georgi Eftimov, 59, Bulgarian Olympic footballer (1952).[68]
- Gerald T. Flynn, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1961).[69]
- George Holliday, 73, British Olympic bobsledder (1948).[70]
- Tarcisio Longoni, 76, Italian politician.
- Ruth Mason, 76, New Zealand botanist.
- Mary Oppen, 81, American poet, ovarian cancer.[71]
- Bill Pace, 58, American football player.[72]
- Ned Pines, 84, American publisher.[73]
- Franklyn Seales, 37, American actor, AIDS.[74]
15
- Jerzy Drzewiecki, 87, Polish airplane engineer.
- Peter Grimwade, 47, British television director and screenwriter, leukemia.
- Ray Pratt, 75, Australian rugby league player.[75]
- Anna Schchian, 84, Soviet botanist.
- Yves Van Massenhove, 81, Belgian Olympic racing cyclist (1928).[76]
- Doug Young, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens).[77]
16
- Luis Aldás, 80, Argentine actor.[78]
- Rein Aren, 62, Soviet actor.
- Red Carr, 73, Canadian NHL player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[79]
- Fernando Claudín, 74, Spanish historian.[80]
- Sammy Davis Jr., 64, American singer ("The Candy Man") and actor (Ocean's 11, The Cannonball Run), throat cancer.[81]
- Robert Gall, 71, French lyricist.
- Jim Henson, 53, American puppeteer (The Muppets) and film director (Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal), toxic shock syndrome.[82]
- Eduardo Mateo, 49, Uruguayan singer, songwriter, and guitarist, cancer.
- Pretzel Pezzullo, 79, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), cancer.[83]
- Alija Sirotanović, 75, Yugoslav udarnik.
17
- Manuel Anatol, 87, French footballer.
- Rudolf Breuss, 91, Austrian naturopath and pseudoscientific diet advocate.[84]
- Ken Bryant, 67, Australian rules footballer.[85]
- Auguste Jordan, 81, French footballer.[86]
- Jimmy Lawrence, 76, American gridiron football player.[87]
- Per Ljostveit, 61, Norwegian footballer.[88]
- Detlev Peukert, 39, German historian, AIDS.[89]
- Carlos Riquelme, 76, Mexican actor.
- Jackie Stewart, 68, Scottish footballer.[90]
- Frank Wright, 54, American jazz musician.
18
- Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn, 69, Vietnamese Roman Catholic cardinal.
- Jill Ireland, 54, English actress and singer, breast cancer.[91]
- Lorna Johnstone, 87, English Olympic equestrian (1956, 1968, 1972).[92]
- Karl Meyer, 90, German-American biochemist.[93]
- Rafael Hernández Ochoa, 74, Mexican politician.
- Dalton Prejean, 30, American convicted murderer, execution by electrocution.
- Yannis Spyropoulos, 78, Greek painter.
- Eje Thelin, 51, Swedish trombonist.[94]
19
- Jim Balfour, 75, Australian politician.[95]
- Ted Cook, 69, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).[96]
- Olive Byrne, 86, American writer.
- Hector Dyer, 79, American Olympic sprinter (1932).[97]
- Aladár Háberl, 92, Hungarian Olympic skier (1924).[98]
- Hermann Wulf, 74, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.
20
- Bina Mossman, 97, American musician and politician.
- Peter Rabe, 68, German-American author, lung cancer.[99]
- Aage Rubæk-Nielsen, 76, Danish Olympic equestrian (1952).[100]
- Franklin Williams, 72, American diplomat.[101]
21
- Mrs. Victor Bruce, 94, British racer.
- Morris Levy, 62, American record executive, cancer.[102]
- Ed Steitz, 69, American basketball coach.[103]
- Lily von Essen, 93, Swedish Olympic tennis player (1920, 1924).[104]
- Max Wall, 82, English actor and comedian, fall.[105]
22
- Rocky Graziano, 71, American boxer, cardiopulmonary failure.[106]
- Pat Reid, 79, British historian and soldier.[107]
- Ling Shuhua, 90, Chinese modernist writer and painter.
- Leslie Spriggs, 80, British politician.
- Woody Williams, 71, American baseball player.[108]
- Ronald Wood, 60, English cricketer.[109]
23
- Affandi, 83, Indonesian artist.[110]
- Charlie Keller, 73, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers).[111]
- Elliott Lewis, 72, American actor.[112]
- Giuseppe Santomaso, 82, Italian painter and educator.[113]
- Ted Tinling, 79, British-American fashion designer.[114]
24
- Jeanne de Salzmann, 101, French-Swiss choreographer.[115]
- Augie Donatelli, 75, American baseball umpire.[116]
- K. S. Hegde, 80, Indian politician and judge.
- John Kendall-Carpenter, 64, English rugby player.
- Jacques Lob, 57, French comic book artist.[117]
- Dries van der Lof, 70, Dutch racing driver.[118]
- Julijans Vaivods, 94, Soviet Roman Catholic cardinal.
25
- D. S. Amalorpavadass, 57, Indian theologian.[119]
- Athanasios Asimakopulos, 59, Canadian economist, leukemia.[120]
- Ray Atkeson, 83, American photographer.[121]
- Hans-Werner Kraus, 74, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- William Overgard, 64, American cartoonist.[122]
- Vic Tayback, 60, American actor (Alice, Bullitt, All Dogs Go to Heaven), heart attack.[123]
- Gary Usher, 51, American musician, lung cancer.[124]
26
- Marguerite S. Church, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1963).
- René David, 64, French legal scholar.[125]
- Brūno Kalniņš, 91, Latvian politician and historian.
- Emil Konopinski, 78, American nuclear scientist.[126]
- Don McFadyen, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[127]
- Chris McGregor, 53, South African musician, lung cancer.[128]
- Varlen Pen, 73, Soviet Russian-Korean painter and graphic artist.
- Nicole Riche, 64, French actress.[129]
27
- Heino Dissing, 77, Danish Olympic racing cyclist (1936).[130]
- Adele Duttweiler-Bertschi, 97, Swiss philanthropist.
- Emil Handschin, 62, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1948, 1952, 1956).[131]
- Clarrie Heard, 83, New Zealand Olympic swimmer (1924).[132]
- Joe McDonald Ingraham, 86, American judge.[133]
- Pyotr Lomako, 85, Soviet politician.
- Jessie MacWilliams, 73, English mathematician.
- Robert Baumle Meyner, 81, American politician, governor of New Jersey (1954–1962).[134]
- Mieko Takamine, 71, Japanese actress and singer.[135]
28
- Ralph Alger Bagnold, 94, English geologist.[136]
- Bill Davies, 74, Canadian football player.
- Julius Eastman, 49, American musician, cardiac arrest.[137]
- Wilhelm Effern, 83, Dutch Olympic middle-distance runner (1928).[138]
- Inna Gulaya, 50, Soviet actress, drug overdose.
- Giorgio Manganelli, 67, Italian writer.[139]
- Taiichi Ohno, 78, Japanese industrialist (Toyota Production System).[140]
- Wilhelm Wagenfeld, 90, German industrial designer and engineer.[141]
29
- Mohamed Shah Alam, 27, Bangladeshi Olympic sprinter (1988).[142]
- Yves Brayer, 82, French painter.[143]
- Jimmy Creighton, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Falcons), Parkinson's disease.
- Bill MacKenzie, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.[144]
- Fred Patterson, 74, Australian rules footballer.[145]
- Albert Spaulding, 75, American anthropologist.[146]
- Alexander Tsvetkov, 75, Bulgarian chess player.
30
- Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere, 92, British academic.
- John Francis Hackett, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Ole Scavenius Jensen, 69, Danish Olympic rower (1952)cyclist.[147]
- Wilderich Freiherr Ostman von der Leye, 66, German politician.
- José Solís, 76, Spanish politician.[148]
31
- Clotario Blest, 90, Chilean unionist.
- Jerzy Kaliszewski, 77, Polish actor.
- Art Lund, 75, American singer.[149]
- Michael Raffetto, 90, American actor, throat cancer.[150]
- Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., 72, American CIA agent and writer, heart failure.[151]
- Charlie Shoemaker, 50, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics), suicide by gunshot.[152]
- Willy Spühler, 88, Swiss politician.