title: Deaths in March 1990
text: # Deaths in March 1990
  
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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.
  
  ## March 1990
  
  ### 1
  
  * Desmond Brain, 80, Australian cricketer.
  * Max Bulla, 84, Austrian racing cyclist.
  * Ben Hill Griffin, Jr., 79, American businessman and politician.
  * Dainin Katagiri, 62, Japanese-American Zen master, cancer.
  
  ### 2
  
  * Arthur Fleischmann, 93, Czech-British sculptor.
  * Shakey Jake Harris, 68, American musician.
  * 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.
  * Louis Page, 84, French cinematographer.
  * Charlotte Moore Sitterly, 91, American astronomer, heart failure.
  
  ### 4
  
  * Abraham Bernstein, 71, American politician.
  * 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.
  * Harry Worthington, 98, American Olympic track and field athlete (1912).
  
  ### 5
  
  * Albano, 67, Portuguese footballer.
  * Edmund Conen, 75, German football player.
  * Mala, 47, Pakistani singer.
  * Timothy Mason, 50, English marxist historian of Nazi Germany, suicide.
  * Gary Merrill, 74, American actor (All About Eve), lung cancer.
  * Hans Christian Nielsen, 61, Danish footballer.
  * Gina Pane, 50, French artist.
  * Gloria Carter Spann, 63, American motorcyclist, sister of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.
  * Peter Adolf Thiessen, 90, German chemist.
  * Karel Thijs, 71, Belgian racing cyclist.
  * William Appleman Williams, 68, American historian.
  
  ### 6
  
  * Friedrich Hielscher, 87, German theologian.
  * Taro Kagawa, 67, Japanese footballer.
  * E. T. Klassen, 81, United States Postmaster General.
  * Egill Knutzen, 75, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948, 1952).
  * Adam Papée, 94, Polish fencer and Olympic medalist.
  * William Raborn, 84, American intelligence officer, Director of Central Intelligence (1965–1966).
  * Joe Sewell, 91, American baseball player.
  * Julian Spence, 60, American football player.
  * Earl T. Wagner, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949–1951).
  
  ### 7
  
  * Claude Arrieu, 86, French composer.
  * Shuddhananda Bharati, 92, Indian religious philosopher.
  * 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.
  * Mordecai Gorelik, 90, Russian-American theatrical designer, cancer.
  * Jay Lovestone, 92, Russian-American political activist.
  * Luís Carlos Prestes, 92, Brazilian politician, heart attack.
  * 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.
  * Erich Hohagen, 75, German general and flying ace during World War II.
  * Karin Kavli, 83, Swedish actress.
  * Charles Krüger, 93, Luxembourgian football player.
  * Jack Lindsay, 89, Australian-British writer.
  * John Ben Shepperd, 74, American politician, cancer.
  * Hein van Breenen, 60, Dutch racing cyclist.
  
  ### 9
  
  * Georgios Costakis, 76, Soviet collector of Russian art.
  * Abraham Solomon Halkin, 86, Russian-American-Israeli historian, pneumonia.
  * Giorgos Joannides, 67, Greek-born American intelligence officer.
  * Martial Singher, 85, French opera singer.
  * Lou Vedder, 92, American football player.
  
  ### 10
  
  * Tseng Kwong Chi, 39, Hong Kong-American photographer, AIDS.
  * B. R. Deodhar, 88, Indian singer.
  * Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, 83, British politician.
  * Pat McDonald, 68, Australian actress, pancreatic cancer.
  * Harro Ran, 52, Dutch water polo player.
  * 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.
  * Pratul Chandra Gupta, 80, Indian historian.
  * Dean Horrix, 28, English footballer, traffic collision.
  * Edward Grady Partin, 66, American trade unionist.
  * Oronzo Pugliese, 79, Italian football manager.
  * Roy Schalk, 81, American baseball player.
  
  ### 12
  
  * Bruce Barnes, 80, American tennis player.
  * Rie de Balbian Verster-Bolderheij, 100, Dutch painter.
  * Wallace Breem, 63, British author.
  * Lamberto Cesari, 79, Italian-American mathematician.
  * Jane Grigson, 61, English cookbook writer, cervical cancer.
  * Eugene V. Klein, 69, American businessman.
  * Rosamond Lehmann, 89, English novelist.
  * Walter Orr Roberts, 74, American atmospheric scientist and astronomer, cancer.
  * Alf Sherwood, 66, Welsh footballer, heart attack.
  * Philippe Soupault, 92, French writer.
  * Harry South, 60, English musician.
  
  ### 13
  
  * Bruno Bettelheim, 86, Austrian-American psychologist, suicide by asphyxiation.
  * 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.
  * Karl Münchinger, 74, German conductor.
  * Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova, 85, Russian-British anthropologist.
  * Gottfried Weimann, 82, German Olympic javelin thrower (1932, 1936).
  
  ### 14
  
  * Robert H. Bahmer, 85, American archivist.
  * Wilhelm Baumann, 77, German handball player.
  * Pete Close, 52, American Olympic runner (1960).
  * Richard Cooper, 44, English cricketer.
  * Harold Medina, 102, American judge.
  * Yuri Sokolov, 29, Soviet Olympic judoka (1988) and criminal, killed.
  * Aubrey Wisberg, 80, British-American filmmaker, cancer.
  
  ### 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.
  * Loleta Fyan, 95, American librarian.
  * Tom Harmon, 70, American football player.
  * Mykola Makhynia, 77, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach.
  
  ### 16
  
  * Ernst Bacon, 91, American composer.
  * Wolfgang Clemen, 81, German literary scholar.
  * Fritz Ewert, 53, German footballer.
  * James Frank Gilliam, 75, American classical scholar.
  * Angus Scott, 62, British track and field athlete and Olympian.
  
  ### 17
  
  * Capucine, 62, French model and actress (The Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?), suicide by jumping.
  * Samuel H. Friedman, 93, American journalist and labor union activist, pneumonia.
  * Ric Grech, 44, British musician, liver failure.
  * Nanette Guilford, 86, American opera singer, gastroenteritis.
  * Mohamed Latif, 80, Egyptian football player.
  * Jack Noren, 60, American drummer.
  * Rose Marie Pangborn, 57–58, American food scientist, cancer.
  * Carmelo Samonà, 64, Italian academic.
  
  ### 18
  
  * Robin Harris, 36, American comedian and actor, heart attack.
  * Bob Katter, Sr., 71, Australian politician.
  * Charles Phelps Smyth, 95, American chemist.
  * Eileen Soper, 84, English artist.
  * Zacarias, 56, Brazilian actor.
  
  ### 19
  
  * Oyinkan Abayomi, 93, Nigerian activist.
  * Tiny Brauer, 80, American actor.
  * James H. R. Cromwell, 93, American diplomat.
  * Wilhelm Flügge, 86, German engineer.
  * Leopold Neumer, 71, Austrian football player.
  * Oulaya, 53, Tunisian singer and actress.
  * Andrew Wood, 24, American singer, heroin overdose.
  
  ### 20
  
  * Jason Boe, 61, American politician.
  * Maurice Cloche, 82, French filmmaker, Parkinson's disease.
  * Kenneth Mather, 78, British geneticist, heart attack.
  * Wilhelm Neef, 74, German conductor.
  * Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, 79, British banker and intelligence officer.
  * Lev Yashin, 60, Soviet footballer, stomach cancer.
  
  ### 21
  
  * Dessie Cullinane, 70, Irish footballer.
  * Allan Roberts, 46, British politician, cancer.
  * Mohammad Shahiduddin, 67, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and politician.
  * Edward Wojda, 48, Polish wrestler and Olympian.
  * Rayburn Wright, 67, American trombonist, composer, and conductor, cancer.
  
  ### 22
  
  * Gerald Bull, 62, Canadian military engineer, shot.
  * Maurice Fleuret, 57, French composer.
  * Robert Karplus, 63, Austrian-American theoretical physicist.
  * Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, 33, Colombian communist politician, homicide.
  * Geoffrey Ostergaard, 63, British political scientist, leukemia.
  * Cornelius A. Pickett, 87, American politician.
  
  ### 23
  
  * John Dexter, 64, English theatre director.
  * René Enríquez, 56, Nicaraguan-American actor, AIDS.
  * John Jardine, 54, American gridiron football player, heart condition.
  * Al Sears, 80, American saxophonist.
  * Leongino Unzaim, 64, Paraguayan football player.
  
  ### 24
  
  * Ray Goulding, 68, American comedian, kidney failure.
  * Jennie Lee, 61, American stripteaser, cancer.
  * John Louis Morkovsky, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, stroke.
  * Alice Sapritch, 73, French actress, cancer.
  * An Wang, 70, Chinese-American computer engineer, cancer.
  
  ### 25
  
  * Len Astill, 73, English footballer.
  * Karl Brown, 93, American filmmaker.
  * George Clayden, 86, Australian footballer.
  * Carl Emmermann, 75, German U-boat commander during World War II.
  * David Evans, 56, English cricket player.
  * Bertil Linde, 83, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
  * Charles Lucet, 79, French diplomat.
  
  ### 26
  
  * Chet Brewer, 83, American baseball player.
  * Tris Coffin, 80, American actor, lung cancer.
  * Halston, 57, American fashion designer, AIDS.
  * Brūno Kalniņš, 90, Russian-Swedish politician.
  * Michel Mirowski, 65, Polish-born American physician, multiple myeloma.
  * Maniben Patel, 86, Indian independence activist and politician.
  * Alan Solem, 58, American malacologist.
  
  ### 27
  
  * Percy Beard, 82, American track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.
  * Václav Bubník, 64, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
  * Marilyn Buferd, 65, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
  * Alfred Earle, 82, British RAF officer.
  * Colin Jamieson, 66, Australian politician.
  * František Kopečný, 80, Czechoslovak linguist.
  * Ray Kuka, 68, American basketball player.
  * Lester James Maitland, 91, American aviator.
  
  ### 28
  
  * George Arthur, 65, Australian football player.
  * Gino Cappello, 69, Italian footballer.
  * Thomas Cree, 75, Australian Olympic rower (1936).
  * Henry Hecksher, 79, American intelligence officer, Parkinson's disease.
  * Johnny Neun, 89, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
  * 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.
  * Joseph Hilger, 86–87, Luxembourgian Olympic runner (1924).
  * Phil Masi, 74, American baseball player.
  * Alain Oulman, 61, Portuguese songwriter.
  * Archie Strimel, 71, American football player.
  
  ### 30
  
  * Thea Bowman, 52, American Roman Catholic evangelist, cancer.
  * Harry Bridges, 88, Australian-American unionist.
  * Edvin Hansen, 70, Danish footballer.
  * Joseph O. Hirschfelder, 78, American nuclear physicist.
  * Eberhard Klagemann, 85, German film producer.
  * Vladimir Stolnikov, 56, Soviet boxer.
  
  ### 31
  
  * Piera Aulagnier, 66, French psychologist, cancer.
  * Pierre Destailles, 80, French film, stage and television actor.
  * John Hawkes, 90, Australian tennis player.
  * Horace Hazell, 80, English cricket player.
  * Knut Ansgar Nelson, 83, Danish-Swedish Roman Catholic prelate.
  * Heinz-Günter Wittmann, 63, German biochemist.
  