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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
1
- Gianfranco Contini, 78, Italian academic and philologist.[1]
- Lauritz Falk, 80, Swedish-Norwegian actor.
- Peter Racine Fricker, 69, English composer, throat cancer.[2]
- Hassan Ibrahim, 73, Egyptian Air Force officer.
- Yeghishe Derderian of Jerusalem, 78, Israeli Armenian patriarch (since 1960), heart attack.[3]
- Jadwiga Wajs, 78, Polish Olympic discus thrower (1932, 1936).
2
- Kathleen Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, 84, British Mistress of the Robes (since 1964).
- Paul Ariste, 84, Soviet linguist.
- Paul Arzens, 86, French industrial automotive designer.[4]
- Benedict Daswa, 43, South African educator, beaten to death.
- Enrico De Pedis, 35, Italian gangster, homicide.
- Joel Fluellen, 82, American actor, suicide by gunshot.[5]
- Mel Lewis, 60, American drummer, skin cancer.[6]
- Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, 79, Norwegian fiddler.[7]
- Hans Schumm, 93, German-American actor, heart failure.[8]
- Don Welsh, 78, English football player.[9]
3
- Erv Kantlehner, 97, American baseball player.[10]
- Willibald Kirbes, 87, Austrian football player.
- Jane Novak, 94, American actress, stroke.
- Pa Tepaeru Terito Ariki, 66, Cook Islander lyricist ("Te Atua Mou E").
- Marcel Thévenet, 74, French weightlifter and Olympian.[11]
4
- Zé Beto, 29, Portuguese footballer, traffic collision.
- Jean Galloway Bissell, 53, American judge, cancer.[12]
- Leonard J. Fick, 74, American academic, heart disease.
- Maria Gambarelli, 89, Italian-American actress and dancer.[13]
- Berta Karlik, 86, Austrian physicist.
- Archibald Ross Lewis, 75, American historian.[14]
- Kate Simon, 77, Polish-American writer.[15]
- Whipper Billy Watson, 72, Canadian wrestler and trainer.
5
- W. W. Bartley III, 55, American philosopher, bladder cancer.[16]
- Edgar Herschler, 71, American politician, governor of Wyoming (1975–1987), cancer.
- Père Marie-Benoît, 94, French humanitarian.[17]
- Joseph Mauclair, 83, French road bicycle racer from 1927 to 1938.[18]
- Joseph J. Nazzaro, 76, American Air Force general, cancer.[19]
- King Perry, 75, American musician.
6
- Bin Akao, 91, Japanese politician, heart failure.[20]
- Jeannine Auboyer, 77, French museum curator.[21]
- Bernard Bernstein, 81, American economist, cardiac arrest.[22]
- John Merivale, 72, Canadian-British actor, kidney failure.[23]
- Jimmy Van Heusen, 77, American composer, complications from a stroke.[24]
7
- Thomas Clark, 83, American Olympic rower (1932).[25]
- Tony Fomison, 50, New Zealand artist.[26]
- Max Koecher, 66, German mathematician.
- Alan Perlis, 67, American computer scientist, heart attack.[27]
- Alfredo M. Santos, 84, Filipino general.
8
- Rhys Adrian, 61, British playwright and screenwriter.
- Bernice Carey, 78-79, American mystery writer.[28]
- Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., 77, American painter and musician, father of Muhammad Ali, heart attack.[29]
- George de Mestral, 82, Swiss electrical engineer and inventor of velcro.
- Xu Deheng, 99, Chinese politician.
- Katalin Karády, 79, Hungarian actress and singer.[30]
- Pete Kmetovic, 70, American football player.[31]
- Charles Maclean, Baron Maclean, 73, British hereditary peer.
- Del Shannon, 55, American musician, suicide by gunshot.[32]
- Ernest William Titterton, 73, British nuclear physicist, pulmonary embolism.
9
- James Fleming Gordon, 71, American judge.[33]
- Ilse Hollweg, 67, German opera singer.
- Saroj Mukherjee, 79, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
- John Poelker, 76, American politician.
- Jan Wojnowski, 43, Polish weightlifter and Olympian.[34]
10
- Clara González, 88, Panamanian feminist, judge, and activist.[35]
- Knut Hansson, 78, Swedish footballer.[36]
- Luigi Musina, 75, Italian boxer.
- John Arthur Pilcher, 77, British diplomat.
- Bill Sherwood, 37, American musician and filmmaker, AIDS.[37]
- Tony Solaita, 43, American baseball player, shot.[38]
11
- Léopold Anoul, 67, Belgian football player.
- Tom Brennan, 59, American basketball player.[39]
- Marie-Dominique Chenu, 95, French theologian.[40]
- Enrique Kistenmacher, 66, Argentine Olympic athlete (1948).[41]
- Colin Henderson Roberts, 80, British classical scholar.[42]
12
- Joseph Peter Michael Denning, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate.[43]
- Erling Enger, 90, Norwegian painter.
- Harold McCusker, 50, Northern Irish politician, cancer.[44]
- Victor Pokrovsky, 92, Russian choir director, translator, and music arranger.
- Nenad Radulović, 30, Yugoslav singer, testicular cancer.
13
- Binyomin Beinush Finkel, 78-79, Soviet-Israeli rabbi.
- Angela Gregory, 86, American sculptor.
- Heinz Haber, 76, German physicist.
- Manuel Rodriguez Lopez, 55, Galician poet and writer.[45]
- Ken Lynch, 79, American actor, viral illness.[46]
- Leon Stein, 77-78, American writer.[47]
14
- Armistead L. Boothe, 82, American politician.[48]
- Michel Drach, 59, French filmmaker.[49]
- Graeme Hole, 59, Australian cricketer, cancer.[50]
- Tony Holiday, 38, German singer, AIDS.
- Slick Johnson, 41, American racing driver, racing collision.
- Dick Martin, 62, American artist.[51]
- José Luis Panizo, 68, Spanish footballer.[52]
- John M. Robsion, Jr., 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1959).
- Fritz Schulz-Reichel, 77, German pianist.
- Jean Wallace, 66, American actress, gastrointestinal bleeding.[53]
- Luděk Čajka, 26, Czechoslovak ice hockey player, spinal cord injury.
15
- Keyes Beech, 76, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Henry Brandon, 77, German-American actor, heart attack.[54]
- George Daney, 43, American football player, carbon monoxide poisoning.[55]
- Dolores Faith, 48, American actress, suicide.
- Ulf Johanson, 68, Swedish actor.
- Frans Kellendonk, 39, Dutch novelist, AIDS.[56]
- Dorival Knippel, 72, Brazilian footballer.[57]
- Jack C. Massey, 85, American businessman, pneumonia.[58]
- Norman Parkinson, 76, English photographer.[59]
- Rudolf Schaad, 88, Russian-German film editor.[60]
16
- John Eastaugh, 69, British Anglican prelate.
- Keith Haring, 31, American artist, AIDS.[61]
- Nurul Momen, 81, Bangladeshi playwright.
- Luis Ortiz Monasterio, 83, Mexican sculptor.[62]
- József Moravetz, 79, Romanian football player.
- Tadanari Okamoto, 58, Japanese animator.
- Volodymyr Scherbytsky, 71, Soviet and Ukrainian politician, pneumonia.
- Joshua Shelley, 70, American actor.[63]
- J. C. Trewin, 81, British journalist.[64]
17
- Robert Bernard, 76, German footballer.[65]
- Jean-Marc Boivin, 38, French mountaineer, extreme sports person, film maker, and author , BASE jumping accident.[66]
- Brendan Corish, 71, Irish politician.[67]
- Larry Cox, 42, American baseball player, heart attack.[68]
- Hap Day, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.[69]
- Dino Falconi, 87, Italian screenwriter and film director.
- Erik Rhodes, 84, American actor, pneumonia.[70]
- Allen Rivkin, 86, American screenwriter.[71]
- Hans Speier, 85, German-American sociologist.[72]
18
- Günther Bornkamm, 84, German theologian.[73]
- Herman Carlson, 83, Swedish ice hockey player.[74]
- Margaret Craske, 97, British ballet dancer and choreographer.[75]
- Richard de Zoysa, 31, Sri Lankan journalist, human rights activist and actor, shot.
- Joe Erskine, 56, Welsh boxer.
- Tor Isedal, 65, Swedish actor.
- Frank Ross, 85, American filmmaker, complications from brain surgery.[76]
19
- Edris Rice-Wray Carson, 86, American medical researcher.
- Ernest Cole, 49, South African photographer, cancer.[77]
- Gabriel Katzka, 59, American theater, film and television producer, heart attack.[78]
- Francis Keppel, 73, American educator.[79]
- Laura Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, 74, British socialite.
- Otto E. Neugebauer, 90, Austrian-American mathematician and science historian.[80]
- Janusz Paluszkiewicz, 77, Polish actor.
- Michael Powell, 84, English filmmaker, cancer.[81]
- Abdul Matin Chowdhury, Shaikh-e-Fulbari, 74-75, Bangladeshi religious scholar.
- Massey H. Shepherd, 76, American priest and scholar.[82]
- William White, 69, Scottish cricketer. field hockey player and Olympic silver medalist.[83]
20
- Sergio Camargo, 59, Brazilian sculptor and relief maker.
- Cecil Garriott, 73, American baseball player.[84]
- Harry Klinefelter, 77, American physician.
- Verdina Shlonsky, 85, Russian-Israeli musician.[85]
21
- Zohrabai Ambalewali, 71-72, Indian singer.
- Johnny Borland, 64, New Zealand athletics official.
- Juanita Larrauri, 79, Argentine singer and politician.
- Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, 86, Romanian-American mathematician.[86]
- Vincent Teresa, 59–60, American mobster (Patriarca crime family), kidney failure.[87]
22
- Stephen W. Burns, 35, American actor, AIDS.
- T. O. Honiball, 85, South African cartoonist.[88]
- Andrew Jarvis, 99, Greek-American politician and businessman.
- Victor Lasky, 72, American writer.[89]
- Evald Seepere, 78, Soviet/Estonian boxer.
23
- Amritlal, 73, Indian writer.[90]
- Arne Bang-Hansen, 78, Norwegian actor.[91]
- José Napoleón Duarte, 64, Salvadoran politician, president (1984–1989), stomach cancer.
- James M. Gavin, 82, American general.[92]
- Stan Hough, 71, American film producer.[93]
- Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, 37-38, Pakistani cleric, murdered.
- David Samoylov, 69, Russian poet.[94]
- Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, 53, Dutch politician, cancer.[95]
24
- Arthur Ayrault, 55, American Olympic rower (1956, 1960).[96]
- Tony Conigliaro, 45, American baseball player, kidney failure.[97]
- Malcolm Forbes, 70, American politician and publisher (Forbes), heart attack.[98]
- Lloyd Jordan, 89, American sports player and coach.
- Jure Kaštelan, 70, Yugoslav poet.
- Arch Nicholson, 48, Australian film director, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Sandro Pertini, 93, Italian politician, president (1978–1985).[99]
- Johnnie Ray, 63, American singer ("Cry"), liver failure.[100]
- Gabriel Sempé, 88, French Olympic hurdler (1924, 1928).[101]
- Darryl Usher, 25, American football player, shot.[102]
25
- André de Korver, 74, Dutch racing cyclist.[103]
- Henry Fairlie, 66, British political journalist.[104]
- Estelle Peck Ishigo, 90, American artist and author.[105]
- Ingrid Larsen, 80, Danish chess player.
26
- Lew Erber, 55, American gridiron football coach.[106]
- Julian Gascoigne, 86, British general.
- Cornell Gunter, 53, American singer, shot.[107]
- Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, 97, American heiress and publisher (The New York Times).[108]
- Margot Walle, 68, Norwegian Olympic skater (1948).[109]
27
- Les Ames, 84, English cricket player.[110]
- Johannes Draaijer, 26, Dutch racing driver, heart block, heart attack.
- Vern Freiburger, 66, American baseball player.[111]
- Alberto Mario Giustolisi, 61, Italian chess player.
- Nahum Norbert Glatzer, 86, Austrian-American historian and philosopher.[112]
- Josephine Johnson, 79, American novelist, pneumonia.[113]
- Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc, 75, Vietnamese politician, prime minister (1954).
- Alexandru Rosetti, 94, Romanian linguist, accident.[114]
28
- Erik Anderberg, 98, Swedish naval admiral.
- Jack Conroy, 90, American leftist writer.[115]
- Mario Craveri, 87, Italian filmmaker.[116]
- Sylvia del Villard, 62, Puerto Rican actress and dancer.
- Fabia Drake, 86, British actress.[117]
- Kornel Filipowicz, 76, Polish writer, lung cancer.
- Russell Jacquet, 72, American trumpeter, heart attack.[118]
- Colin Milburn, 48, English cricketer, heart attack.
- Wallace Reid Jr., 72, American actor, plane crash.
- John O'Sullivan, 88, Irish politician.
- Tuppy Owen-Smith, 81, South African cricket player.
- David Prichard, 26, American guitarist, leukemia.[119]
- Greville Wynne, 70, British engineer and intelligence officer, esophageal cancer.[120]
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