Famous People Who Died In 1990
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1990. This list includes people like Leonard Bernstein, Roald Dahl, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ava Gardner, Lev Yashin and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, journalists, poets and novelists who died in 1990. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Italy & India and many more countries.
Roald Dahl13 September 1916, British, Welsh
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Stevie Ray Vaughan03 October 1954, American
Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer
Sammy Davis Jr.08 December 1925, American
singer
Ava Gardner24 December 1922, American
Greta Garbo18 September 1905, Swedish, American
Film actress
Barbara Stanwyck16 June 1907, American
Actress
Keith Haring04 May 1958, American
American artist
Jill Ireland24 April 1936, British, American
Actress
Leonard Bernstein25 August 1918, American
Conductor (New York Philharmonic)
Ryan White06 December 1971, American
B. F. Skinner20 March 1904, American
American psychologist
Paulette Goddard03 June 1910, American
Film actress
Rex Harrison05 March 1908, British
Actor
Vic Tayback06 January 1930, American
Actor
Lev Yashin22 October 1929, Russian, Russian
Football Player
Aaron Copland14 November 1900, American
Composer, teacher, writer
Irene Dunne20 December 1898, American
Actress
Joan Bennett27 February 1910, American
Actress
Gary Merrill02 August 1915, American
Actor
Mary Martin01 December 1913, American
Actress, Singer
Tunku Abdul Rahman08 February 1903, Malaysian
First Prime Minister of Malaysia
Robert Noyce12 December 1927, American
Co-inventor of the integrated circuit
Malcolm Muggeridge24 March 1903, British
Journalist and Author
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
John Stewart Bell28 June 1928, Northern Irish
Physicist
Norman Cousins24 June 1915, American
Journalist & Author
Hussein Onn12 February 1922, Malaysian
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia
Reinaldo Arenas16 July 1943, Cuban
Cuban poet
Alberto Moravia28 November 1907, Italian
Italian novelist
José Napoleón Duarte23 November 1925, Salvadoran
Salvadoran Political figure
Martin Ritt02 March 1914, American
Film Director
Anatole Broyard16 July 1920, American
Writer
An Wang07 February 1920, Chinese, American
Co-founder of Wang Laboratories
Robert Hofstadter05 February 1915, American
Physicist
Pavel Cherenkov28 July 1904, Russian
Physicist
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Osho Rajneesh11 December 1931, Indian
One of the most controversial spiritual leaders
David Rose15 June 1910, American
Entrepreneur
Curtis Lemay15 November 1906, American
U. S. Air Force General During World War II
Jože Javoršek20 October 1920, Slovenian
Playwright
Alan John Percival Taylor25 March 1906, British
Historian
Rajneesh11 December 1931, Indian
Teacher, Writer, Autobiographer, Guru
Jim Henson24 September 1936, American
Television director, Film director, Film producer,
Sammy Davis Jr.08 December 1925, American
American singer
Lawrence Durrell27 February 1912, British
Novelist
Alan Hale Jr.08 March 1921, American
Actor
Capucine06 January 1928, French
Actor, Model
Rocky Graziano01 January 1919, Italian, American
Boxer, Television actor
Eve Arden30 April 1908, American
Actress
Tom Fogerty09 November 1941, American
Singer, Guitarist
Del Shannon30 December 1934, American
Singer, Singer-songwriter, Songwriter, Guitarist,
Sarah Vaughan27 March 1924, American
Singer, Jazz musician, Pianist
Halston23 April 1932, American
Fashion designer, Costume designer
Stefano Casiraghi08 September 1960, Italian
Businessperson, Socialite
Samuel Doe06 May 1951, Liberian
Military personnel
Viktor Tsoi21 June 1962, Russian
Poet, Actor, Singer, Guitarist, Composer,
Bill Cullen18 February 1920, American
Actor
Louis Althusser16 October 1918, French
Philosopher, Politician, University teacher
Meir Kahane01 August 1932, Israeli, American
Politician, Rabbi, Journalist
Xavier Cugat01 January 1900, Cuban, Spanish
Conductor, Composer, Jazz musician, Singer,
Brent Mydland21 October 1952, American
Musician, Singer
Jacques Demy05 June 1931, French
Film director, Screenwriter, Dialogue writer,
Dexter Gordon1923 AD, American
Actor, Saxophonist
Elliott Roosevelt23 September 1910, American
Politician, Military personnel
V. Shantaram18 November 1901, Indian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Screenwriter,
Gerald Bull09 March 1928, Canadian
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Inventor
John Bowlby26 February 1907, British
Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Child psychiatrist
Sammy Davis, Jr.09 December 1925, American
Singer
William S. Paley28 September 1901, American
Executive
Walker Percy28 May 1916, American
Writer, Novelist, Philosopher
Ric Grech01 November 1946, British
Guitarist
Lewis Mumford19 October 1895, American
Architect, Historian of technology, Historian,
Graham Young07 September 1947, British
Serial killer
Slim Keith15 July 1917, American
Model, Socialite
Michael Powell30 September 1905, British
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
Bruno Bettelheim28 August 1903, Austrian, American
Writer, Psychologist, University teacher,
Michael Oakeshott11 December 1901, British
Philosopher, Political scientist, University
Norman Maclean23 December 1902, American
Novelist, Journalist, Writer, University teacher
Ivan Serov25 August 1905, Russian
A. J. P. Taylor25 March 1906, British
Historian of the modern age, University teacher,
Wendell Scott29 August 1921, American
Racecar driver
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni03 December 1887, Japanese
Politician, Military personnel
Sashadhar Mukherjee29 September 1909, Indian
Film producer
Friedrich Dürrenmatt05 January 1921, Swiss
Swiss author
Harold Ballard30 July 1903, Canadian
Player of Canadian football
Rashad Khalifa19 November 1935, American
Chemist, Translator, Biochemist, Computer
J. C. R. Licklider11 March 1915, American
Computer scientist, Psychologist
Bruno Kreisky22 January 1911, Austrian
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer
Sergio Corbucci06 December 1926, Italian
film director, screenwriter, film producer
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar21 May 1921, Indian
Philosopher
Sandro Pertini25 September 1896, Italian
Politician, Journalist
George Nakashima24 May 1905, Japanese, American
Architect
Norbert Elias22 June 1897, Polish, British
Sociologist
Norbert Elias22 June 1897, Polish
Sociologist
Ugo Tognazzi23 March 1922, Italian
Film director, Actor, Writer, Screenwriter
Cazuza04 April 1958, Brazilian
Singer-songwriter, Singer, Composer, Songwriter,
Nina Kulagina30 July 1926