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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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
- Desmond Brain, 80, Australian cricketer.[1]
- Max Bulla, 84, Austrian racing cyclist.[2]
- Ben Hill Griffin, Jr., 79, American businessman and politician.[3]
- Dainin Katagiri, 62, Japanese-American Zen master, cancer.
2
- Arthur Fleischmann, 93, Czech-British sculptor.[4]
- Shakey Jake Harris, 68, American musician.[5]
- Reg Saunders, 69, Aboriginal Australian Army officer.
- Shin Shalom, 85, Israeli writer.
3
- Roberto Bertol, 72, Spanish football player.
- Gérard Blitz, 78, Belgian entrepreneur.
- William D. Dunham, 70, American general and flying ace during World War II.
- Frans Goedhart, 86, Dutch politician and journalist.[6]
- Louis Page, 84, French cinematographer.[7]
- Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 91, American astronomer, heart failure.[8]
4
- Abraham Bernstein, 71, American politician.[9]
- Hank Gathers, 23, American basketball player, ventricular tachycardia.
- Konstantin Konstantinovich Kokkinaki, 79, Soviet fighter and test pilot.
- Vasily Margelov, 81, Soviet general.
- Heinz Schnackertz, 78, German cinematographer.[10]
- Harry Worthington, 98, American Olympic track and field athlete (1912).[11]
5
- Albano, 67, Portuguese footballer.[12]
- Edmund Conen, 75, German football player.[13]
- Mala, 47, Pakistani singer.
- Timothy Mason, 50, English marxist historian of Nazi Germany, suicide.[14]
- Gary Merrill, 74, American actor (All About Eve), lung cancer.[15]
- Hans Christian Nielsen, 61, Danish footballer.[16]
- Gina Pane, 50, French artist.[17]
- Gloria Carter Spann, 63, American motorcyclist, sister of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.[18]
- Peter Adolf Thiessen, 90, German chemist.[19]
- Karel Thijs, 71, Belgian racing cyclist.[20]
- William Appleman Williams, 68, American historian.[21]
6
- Friedrich Hielscher, 87, German theologian.
- Taro Kagawa, 67, Japanese footballer.
- E. T. Klassen, 81, United States Postmaster General.[22]
- Egill Knutzen, 75, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).[23]
- Adam Papée, 94, Polish fencer and Olympic medalist.[24]
- William Raborn, 84, American intelligence officer, Director of Central Intelligence (1965–1966).
- Joe Sewell, 91, American baseball player.[25]
- Julian Spence, 60, American football player.[26]
- Earl T. Wagner, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).[27]
7
- Claude Arrieu, 86, French composer.[28]
- Shuddhananda Bharati, 92, Indian religious philosopher.[29]
- Shenork I Kaloustian of Constantinople, 76, Soviet Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (since 1963).
- Pancho Córdova, 73, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director.
- Çetin Emeç, 54–55, Turkish journalist, shot.
- Ruth Glass, 77, German-British sociologist and urban planner.[30]
- Mordecai Gorelik, 90, Russian-American theatrical designer, cancer.[31]
- Jay Lovestone, 92, Russian-American political activist.[32]
- Luís Carlos Prestes, 92, Brazilian politician, heart attack.[33]
- Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, 89, South African politician.
- Salvatore Tripoli, 85, American boxer and Olympic medalist.
- Mihály Tóth, 63, Hungarian football player.
- Carl A. Wirtanen, 79, American astronomer.
8
- Erkki Aaltonen, 79, Finnish composer.[34]
- Erich Hohagen, 75, German general and flying ace during World War II.
- Karin Kavli, 83, Swedish actress.
- Charles Krüger, 93, Luxembourgian football player.[35]
- Jack Lindsay, 89, Australian-British writer.[36]
- John Ben Shepperd, 74, American politician, cancer.[37]
- Hein van Breenen, 60, Dutch racing cyclist.[38]
9
- Georgios Costakis, 76, Soviet collector of Russian art.[39]
- Abraham Solomon Halkin, 86, Russian-American-Israeli historian, pneumonia.[40]
- Giorgos Joannides, 67, Greek-born American intelligence officer.
- Martial Singher, 85, French opera singer.[41]
- Lou Vedder, 92, American football player.[42]
10
- Tseng Kwong Chi, 39, Hong Kong-American photographer, AIDS.[43]
- B. R. Deodhar, 88, Indian singer.
- Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, 83, British politician.
- Pat McDonald, 68, Australian actress, pancreatic cancer.[44]
- Harro Ran, 52, Dutch water polo player.[45]
- Otto Schuhart, 80, German U-boat commander during War II.
- Darbara Singh, 74, Indian politician.
- Lance Tingay, 74, British sports journalist, heart attack.
- Reg Wright, 84, Australian politician.
11
- Dan Archibong, 46, Nigerian soldier and politician, traffic collision.
- Muriel Dickson, 86, Scottish soprano.[46]
- Pratul Chandra Gupta, 80, Indian historian.
- Dean Horrix, 28, English footballer, traffic collision.[47]
- Edward Grady Partin, 66, American trade unionist.
- Oronzo Pugliese, 79, Italian football manager.[48]
- Roy Schalk, 81, American baseball player.[49]
12
- Bruce Barnes, 80, American tennis player.
- Rie de Balbian Verster-Bolderheij, 100, Dutch painter.[50]
- Wallace Breem, 63, British author.
- Lamberto Cesari, 79, Italian-American mathematician.[51]
- Jane Grigson, 61, English cookbook writer, cervical cancer.[52]
- Eugene V. Klein, 69, American businessman.
- Rosamond Lehmann, 89, English novelist.[53]
- Walter Orr Roberts, 74, American atmospheric scientist and astronomer, cancer.[54]
- Alf Sherwood, 66, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
- Philippe Soupault, 92, French writer.[55]
- Harry South, 60, English musician.[56]
13
- Bruno Bettelheim, 86, Austrian-American psychologist, suicide by asphyxiation.[57]
- Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley, 70, British hereditary peer.
- Albert De Cleyn, 72, Belgian football player.
- Ernst Goldenbaum, 91, German politician.
- Graham Martin, 77, American diplomat.[58]
- Karl Münchinger, 74, German conductor.[59]
- Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova, 85, Russian-British anthropologist.
- Gottfried Weimann, 82, German Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).[60]
14
- Robert H. Bahmer, 85, American archivist.[61]
- Wilhelm Baumann, 77, German handball player.[62]
- Pete Close, 52, American Olympic runner (1960).[63]
- Richard Cooper, 44, English cricketer.[64]
- Harold Medina, 102, American judge.[65]
- Yuri Sokolov, 29, Soviet Olympic judoka (1988) and criminal, killed.[66]
- Aubrey Wisberg, 80, British-American filmmaker, cancer.[67]
15
- Farzad Bazoft, 31, Iranian-British journalist and alleged spy, execution by hanging.
- José Antonio Bottiroli, 70, Argentine composer.
- Jim Ede, 94, British art collector.[68]
- Loleta Fyan, 95, American librarian.[69]
- Tom Harmon, 70, American football player.[70]
- Mykola Makhynia, 77, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach.
16
- Ernst Bacon, 91, American composer.[71]
- Wolfgang Clemen, 81, German literary scholar.[72]
- Fritz Ewert, 53, German footballer.[73]
- James Frank Gilliam, 75, American classical scholar.[74]
- Angus Scott, 62, British track and field athlete and Olympian.[75]
17
- Capucine, 62, French model and actress (The Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?), suicide by jumping.[76]
- Samuel H. Friedman, 93, American journalist and labor union activist, pneumonia.[77]
- Ric Grech, 44, British musician, liver failure.
- Nanette Guilford, 86, American opera singer, gastroenteritis.[78]
- Mohamed Latif, 80, Egyptian football player.[79]
- Jack Noren, 60, American drummer.[80]
- Rose Marie Pangborn, 57–58, American food scientist, cancer.[81]
- Carmelo Samonà, 64, Italian academic.[82]
18
- Robin Harris, 36, American comedian and actor, heart attack.[83]
- Bob Katter, Sr., 71, Australian politician.
- Charles Phelps Smyth, 95, American chemist.[84]
- Eileen Soper, 84, English artist.[85]
- Zacarias, 56, Brazilian actor.
19
- Oyinkan Abayomi, 93, Nigerian activist.
- Tiny Brauer, 80, American actor.
- James H. R. Cromwell, 93, American diplomat.[86]
- Wilhelm Flügge, 86, German engineer.
- Leopold Neumer, 71, Austrian football player.[87]
- Oulaya, 53, Tunisian singer and actress.
- Andrew Wood, 24, American singer, heroin overdose.[88]
20
- Jason Boe, 61, American politician.[89]
- Maurice Cloche, 82, French filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.[90]
- Kenneth Mather, 78, British geneticist, heart attack.[91]
- Wilhelm Neef, 74, German conductor.[92]
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, 79, British banker and intelligence officer.[93]
- Lev Yashin, 60, Soviet footballer, stomach cancer.[94]
21
- Dessie Cullinane, 70, Irish footballer.
- Allan Roberts, 46, British politician, cancer.[95]
- Mohammad Shahiduddin, 67, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and politician.
- Edward Wojda, 48, Polish wrestler and Olympian.[96]
- Rayburn Wright, 67, American trombonist, composer, and conductor, cancer.[97]
22
- Gerald Bull, 62, Canadian military engineer, shot.
- Maurice Fleuret, 57, French composer.
- Robert Karplus, 63, Austrian-American theoretical physicist.[98]
- Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, 33, Colombian communist politician, homicide.
- Geoffrey Ostergaard, 63, British political scientist, leukemia.[99]
- Cornelius A. Pickett, 87, American politician.[100]
23
- John Dexter, 64, English theatre director.[101]
- René Enríquez, 56, Nicaraguan-American actor, AIDS.
- John Jardine, 54, American gridiron football player, heart condition.[102]
- Al Sears, 80, American saxophonist.[103]
- Leongino Unzaim, 64, Paraguayan football player.
24
- Ray Goulding, 68, American comedian, kidney failure.[104]
- Jennie Lee, 61, American stripteaser, cancer.
- John Louis Morkovsky, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, stroke.[105]
- Alice Sapritch, 73, French actress, cancer.[106]
- An Wang, 70, Chinese-American computer engineer, cancer.[107]
25
- Len Astill, 73, English footballer.[108]
- Karl Brown, 93, American filmmaker.[109]
- George Clayden, 86, Australian footballer.
- Carl Emmermann, 75, German U-boat commander during World War II.[110]
- David Evans, 56, English cricket player.[111]
- Bertil Linde, 83, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.[112]
- Charles Lucet, 79, French diplomat.[113]
26
- Chet Brewer, 83, American baseball player.[114]
- Tris Coffin, 80, American actor, lung cancer.[115]
- Halston, 57, American fashion designer, AIDS.[116]
- Brūno Kalniņš, 90, Russian-Swedish politician.
- Michel Mirowski, 65, Polish-born American physician, multiple myeloma.
- Maniben Patel, 86, Indian independence activist and politician.[117]
- Alan Solem, 58, American malacologist.
27
- Percy Beard, 82, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.[118]
- Václav Bubník, 64, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.[119]
- Marilyn Buferd, 65, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
- Alfred Earle, 82, British RAF officer.
- Colin Jamieson, 66, Australian politician.
- František Kopečný, 80, Czechoslovak linguist.[120]
- Ray Kuka, 68, American basketball player.[121]
- Lester James Maitland, 91, American aviator.[122]
28
- George Arthur, 65, Australian football player.[123]
- Gino Cappello, 69, Italian footballer.[124]
- Thomas Cree, 75, Australian Olympic rower (1936).[125]
- Henry Hecksher, 79, American intelligence officer, Parkinson's disease.[126]
- Johnny Neun, 89, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.[127]
- Kurt Scharf, 87, German Lutheran prelate.
- Helene Whitney, 75, American actress, pneumonia.
29
- Adoor Bhasi, 63, Indian actor and film director, diabetes.
- Barbara Baer Capitman, 69, American community activist, heart failure.[128]
- Joseph Hilger, 86–87, Luxembourgian Olympic runner (1924).[129]
- Phil Masi, 74, American baseball player.[130]
- Alain Oulman, 61, Portuguese songwriter.
- Archie Strimel, 71, American football player.
30
- Thea Bowman, 52, American Roman Catholic evangelist, cancer.[131]
- Harry Bridges, 88, Australian-American unionist.[132]
- Edvin Hansen, 70, Danish footballer.
- Joseph O. Hirschfelder, 78, American nuclear physicist.[133]
- Eberhard Klagemann, 85, German film producer.
- Vladimir Stolnikov, 56, Soviet boxer.[134]
31
- Piera Aulagnier, 66, French psychologist, cancer.[135]
- Pierre Destailles, 80, French film, stage and television actor.
- John Hawkes, 90, Australian tennis player.
- Horace Hazell, 80, English cricket player.[136]
- Knut Ansgar Nelson, 83, Danish-Swedish Roman Catholic prelate.
- Heinz-Günter Wittmann, 63, German biochemist.[137]
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