Deaths in December 1990

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1990

1

• Sergio Corbucci, 63, Italian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Simone Melchior Cousteau, 71, French aquanaut, cancer.
• Pierre Dux, 82, French actor.
• Robert Gordon, 77, American director and actor.
• Erich Hüttenhain, 85, German academic mathematician and cryptographer.
• Anton Kochinyan, 77, Soviet Armenian politician.
• Carla Lehmann, 73, Canadian actress.
• Vito Miceli, 74, Italian politician and general.
• David A. Morse, 83, American labor bureaucrat.
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 90, Indian diplomat and politician.
• Octavio Beras Rojas, 84, Dominican Roman Catholic cardinal.

2

• Richard Benner, 46-47, American film director and screenwriter, AIDS.
• John Britton, 71, American baseball player.
• Marc Cerboni, 35, French Olympic fencer (1984).
• Aaron Copland, 90, American composer and conductor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Robert Cummings, 80, American actor, kidney failure and complications from pneumonia.
• Paul Hoffmann, 88, German actor.
• Edward Oldfield, 70, Australian politician.
• Paddy Smith, 96, American baseball player.
• Clint Thomas, 94, American baseball player.
• Georg Wildhagen, 70, German filmmaker.

3

• Tim Dlugos, 40, American poet, AIDS.
• Gerry Doyle, 79, Irish footballer.
• Rolf Hansen, 85, German film director.
• Heino Mandri, 68, Estonian film and stage actor.
• Ray Wagner, 88, American gridiron football player.

4

• Edward Binns, 74, American actor (12 Angry Men, North by Northwest, Judgment at Nuremberg), heart attack.
• Jack J. Catton, 70, American Air Force general.
• Charles B. MacDonald, 68, American army historian, cancer.
• Nelson Peterson, 77, American football player.
• Naoto Tajima, 78, Japanese athlete and Olympic champion.
• Kimio Yada, 77, Japanese Olympic track and field athlete (1936).

5

• Peter Blum, 65, South African poet.
• Robert Chesley, 47, American playwright, AIDS.
• Kai Curry-Lindahl, 73, Swedish zoologist.
• Lucy Dawidowicz, 75, American historian.
• Narayan Gopal, 51, Nepali singer, diabetes.
• Josef Jedlička, 63, Czechoslovak writer.
• Ott-Heinrich Keller, 84, German mathematician.
• Alfonso A. Ossorio, 74, Filipino-American artist.
• Jack Pleis, 73, American jazz musician.
• Howard Allen Schneiderman, 63, American entomologist.
• Steve Shaw, 25, American actor, traffic collision.

6

• Ed Bell, 69, American football player.
• Natan Brand, 46, Israeli classical pianist, lymphoma.
• Bob Hamilton, 74, American golfer.
• Bill Hardman, 57, American trumpeter, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• George Healis, 84, American Olympic rower (1928).
• Otto Hitzfeld, 92, German general.
• F. Jay Nimtz, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1957–1959).
• Remi Prudhomme, 48, American football player.
• Polingaysi Qöyawayma, 98, American Hopi educator.
• Tunku Abdul Rahman, 87, Malaysian politician, prime minister (1957–1970). .
• Pavlos Sidiropoulos, 42, Greek rock singer, songwriter and guitarist, heroin overdose.

7

• Joan Bennett, 80, American actress, heart failure. .
• Horst Bienek, 60, German novelist, AIDS.
• Norman Bower, 83, British politician.
• Dee Clark, 52, American soul singer, heart attack.
• Jean Duceppe, 67, Stage and television actor from Montreal, Quebec.
• Reinaldo Arenas Fuentes, 47, Cuban novelist, playwright and poet, suicide.
• Pierre Henri Landry, 92, Russian-French tennis player.
• Luis Frangella, 46, Argentine-American artist, AIDS.
• Jean Paul Lemieux, 86, Canadian painter.
• Ralph McKinzie, 96, American sports coach.
• Peter Mieg, 84, Swiss composer.
• Oscar Millard, 82, English screenwriter.
• Rinaldo Ossola, 77, Italian politician.
• David Richmond, 49, American civil rights activist, lung cancer.
• Vilmos Énekes, 75, Hungarian boxer.

8

• John Alexander, 67, American opera singer, heart attack.
• Deane C. Davis, 90, American politician, governor of Vermont (1969–1973).
• Ed Edmondson, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1973).
• Tadeusz Kantor, 75, Polish painter and theatre director.
• Boris Kochno, 86, Russian dancer, librettist and poet, accidental fall.
• Lana Marconi, 73, Romanian-French actress.
• Forrest S. Petersen, 68, American pilot, brain cancer.
• Martin Ritt, 76, American film director (Hud, Norma Rae, Sounder), heart disease.
• William Atcheson Stewart, 75, Canadian politician.

9

• Ben Duijker, 87, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1928).
• Henry Hicks, 75, Canadian politician, traffic collision.
• Mike Mazurki, 82, American actor and professional wrestler.
• Nirala, 53, Pakistani comedian and actor.

10

• Yves Devernay, 53, French organist and composer, heart attack.
• Armand Hammer, 92, American industrialist and philanthropist, bone marrow cancer.
• Dorothea Kent, 74, American actress, breast cancer.
• Marino Morettini, 59, Italian Olympic cyclist (1952).
• Doyle Nave, 75, American football player.
• Bert Weeks, 73, Canadian politician.

11

• Arthur Kornhauser, 94, American industrial psychologist, stroke.
• Peter Millman, 84, Canadian astronomer.
• Robert Noble, 80, Canadian physician.
• David Turner, 63, British playwright.

12

• Giorgio Ghezzi, 60, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Jack Harley, 79, British botanist.
• Concha Piquer, 83, Spanish actress and singer, heart attack.
• Ian Trethowan, 68, British journalist and broadcaster, ALS.

13

• Buddy Justus, 37, American convicted spree killer, execution by electric chair.
• Edwin Lester, 95, American theatre director.
• Marta Linden, 87, American actress.
• Alice Marble, 77, American tennis player and Grand Slam winner, pernicious anemia.
• Alfred Dennis Sieminski, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1951–1959), heart attack.
• Jaroslav Volf, 57, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
• Archie Ware, 72, American baseball player.

14

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 69, Swiss crime novelist, dramatist and satirist, heart failure.
• Nan Wood Graham, 91, American artist, model for American Gothic.
• Red Heron, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Gunild Keetman, 86, German musicologist.
• Zhang Qun, 101, Taiwanese politician, premier (1947–1948).
• Francisco Gabilondo Soler, 83, Mexican composer.
• Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, 64, German businessman and noble, complications from heart surgery.
• Pietro Tordi, 84, Italian actor.

15

• Julio Gutiérrez, 72, Cuban musician.
• Mikayil Jabrayilov, 38, Soviet Azerbaijani soldier, killed in battle.
• Jean Paige, 95, American silent film actress.
• Ed Parker, 59, American martial artist, heart attack.
• Frederic Seebohm, Baron Seebohm, 81, British banker, traffic collision.
• Tamao Shiwaku, 84, Japanese Olympic runner (1936).
• Chen Zhifang, 83-84, Chinese diplomat.

16

• Marc Augier, 82, French far-right writer.
• Douglas Campbell, 94, American aviator and flying ace during World War I.
• Art Koeninger, 84, American football player.
• Jackie Mittoo, 42, Jamaican-Canadian musician, cancer.

17

• William Cobb, 72-73, American roller coaster designer.
• John Grover, 75, English cricket player.
• Frank Hutchison, 93, New Zealand cricket player.
• Eurialo De Michelis, 86, Italian writer.
• Ludwig Lachmann, 84, German economist.
• Guy Lafarge, 86, French composer of operettas and popular songs.

18

• Bernard Addison, 85, American guitarist.
• Arthur Roy Clapham, 86, British botanist.
• Charlie Gibson, 91, American baseball player.
• Geoffrey Giles, 67, Australian politician.
• Tadahiko Hayashi, 72, Japanese photographer, liver cancer.
• Orazio Orlando, 57, Italian actor, heart attack.
• Anne Revere, 87, American actress, pneumonia.
• Connie Russell, 67, American singer and actress (Red Hot Riding Hood).
• Greta Stevenson, 79, New Zealand mycologist.
• Paul Tortelier, 76, French cellist.
• Hazel Walker, 76, American amateur basketball player.

19

• Rubem Braga, 77, Brazilian writer.
• Edmond Delfour, 83, French footballer.
• Norbert Dufourcq, 86, French musicologist.
• Basil Henson, 72, English actor.
• Michael Oakeshott, 89, English philosopher.
• Count Oluf of Rosenborg, 67, Danish noble.
• Billy Tidwell, 60, American football player.

20

• Edward J. Bonin, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1955).
• Marc Chirik, 83, Russian-French communist revolutionary.
• Valeriu Călinoiu, 62, Romanian footballer.
• Andrea Dunbar, 29, English playwright, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• John Hewetson, 77, British newspaper editor.
• Lauro Mumar, 66, Filipino basketball player.
• Mahmudun Nabi, 54, Bangladeshi singer.
• Karl Rolvaag, 77, American politician and diplomat, governor of Minnesota (1963–1967).
• Gershom Schocken, 78, Israeli politician and journalist, liver cancer.
• Elmo Tanner, 86, American singer and whistler.

21

• Sigurd Anderson, 86, Norwegian-American politician, governor of South Dakota (1951–1955).
• Medard Boss, 87, Swiss psychiatrist.
• Yi Geon, 81, Korean prince and Imperial Japanese Army officer during World War II.
• Kelly Johnson, 80, American aeronautical engineer.
• Magda Julin, 96, Swedish figure skater, Olympic champion (1920).
• Ivan Knunyants, 84, Soviet chemist.
• Surendra Mohanty, 68, Indian author and politician.
• József von Platthy, 90, Hungarian Olympic equestrian (1936).
• Fred Washington, 23, American football player, traffic collision.

22

• Cecil Effinger, 76, American composer.
• Robin Friday, 38, English footballer, heart attack.
• Ward Hawkins, 77, American author.
• Ken Irvine, 50, Australian rugby player, leukemia.

23

• Pierre Chenal, 86, French filmmaker.
• Serge Danot, 59, French animator.
• József Darányi, 85, Hungarian Olympic shot putter (1928, 1932, 1936).
• Pierre Gripari, 65, French writer, complications from surgery.
• Richard Irving, 73, American actor, director and producer.
• Frank King, 64, Barbadian cricketer.
• Foy D. Kohler, 82, American diplomat.
• Herbert Salzman, 74, American businessman and Economics consultant.
• Wendell Scott, 69, American stock car racing driver, spinal cancer.
• Wilmar H. Shiras, 82, American science fiction author.

24

• Thorbjørn Egner, 78, Norwegian children's writer, playwright and songwriter, heart attack.
• Judith Ledeboer, 89, Dutch-English architect.
• Friedrich Luft, 79, German theatre critic.
• Rodolfo Orlandini, 85, Argentine footballer.
• Irvin Stewart, 91, American communications administrator.
• Gwyn Williams, 86, Welsh writer.

25

• John Stuart Anderson, 82, British-Australian chemist, cancer.
• Vladimir Belousov, 83, Soviet geologist.
• Aleksandr Luchinskiy, 90, Soviet general.
• Warwick Snedden, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
• Nicolaas Tates, 75, Dutch Olympic canoeist (1936).
• Dodo Watts, 79, British stage and film actress.

26

• Jack Beattie, 83, British-Canadian ice hockey player.
• Gene Callahan, 67, American set and production designer and art director, heart attack.
• George Elliott Hagan, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1973).
• Portland Hoffa, 85, American comedian, radio host, actress, and dancer.
• Eddie Kimball, 87, American football player.

27

• Abulfat Aliyev, 63, Soviet and Azerbaijani opera singer.
• Hendrika Gerritsen, 69, Dutch resistance member during World War II.
• Concha Michel, 91, Mexican singer-songwriter, political activist, and playwright,.
• Helene Stanley, 61, American actress.
• Harold Town, 66, Canadian painter.
• Chang Ucchin, 73, South Korean artist.

28

• Edward Brayshaw, 57, Australian actor, throat cancer.
• Ed van der Elsken, 65, Dutch photographer, prostate cancer.
• Dario Graffi, 85, Italian mathematical physicist.
• Seiji Hisamatsu, 78, Japanese film director.
• Gilbert W. Lindsay, 90, American politician.
• Kiel Martin, 46, American actor, lung cancer.
• Arne Petersen, 77, Danish Olympic cyclist (1936).
• Warren Skaaren, 44, American screenwriter and film producer, bone cancer.

29

• Giulio Bedeschi, 75, Italian writer and Army officer during World War II.
• Goree Carter, 59, American singer, guitarist, drummer, and songwriter.
• Mona Dol, 89, French actress.
• Aleardo Donati, 86, Italian wrestler.
• Sir David Piper, 72, British author and museum curator.
• Aulikki Rautawaara, 84, Finnish soprano.
• Frederick Wolters, 86, American field hockey player.

30

• Fergal Caraher, 20, Northern-Irish Provisional IRA volunteer, shot.
• Jill Cruwys, 47, English cricket player.
• Oliver Daniel, 79, American musicologist.
• Géza Füster, 80, Hungarian-Canadian chess player.
• Albert Mertz, 70, Danish painter.
• Raghuvir Sahay, 61, Indian writer.

31

• Elsie Allen, 91, American Pomo basket weaver.
• George Allen, 72, American football coach, ventricular fibrillation.
• Ed Gantner, 31, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.
• Donald Kingaby, 70, English-American flying ace during World War II.
• Vasily Lazarev, 62, Soviet cosmonaut.
• Giovanni Michelucci, 99, Italian architect, urban planner and designer.
• Moni Singh, 89, Bangladeshi politician.
• Ernst von Siemens, 87, German business magnate.

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