List of Famous people who died at 90

Fernando Riera Bauzá was a Chilean professional football player and manager, patriarch of Chilean football.

Teodoro González de León was a Mexican architect.

Walter Jens was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.

Marcelino dos Santos was a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and politician. As a young man he travelled to Portugal, and France for an education. He was a founding member of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, in 1962, and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977. He was Minister of Economic Development in the late 1970s, Frelimo Political Bureau member in charge of the economy in the early 1980s, Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1987 to 1994, and, as of 1999, remained a member of the Frelimo Central Committee. He represented the left wing of the party, remaining an avowed Marxist-Leninist, despite the party's embrace of capitalism in recent decades, an embrace which dos Santos declared was temporary.

Michiko Ishimure was a Japanese writer and activist.

Hilde Radusch was a German political activist who became involved in anti-fascist resistance. As the twentieth century progressed she also became increasingly prominent as a Feminist and Lesbian activist.

Ida Yakovlevna Nudel was a Soviet-born Israeli refusenik and activist. She was known as the "Guardian Angel" for her efforts to help the "Prisoners of Zion" in the Soviet Union.

Fabio Zerpa was a Uruguayan actor, parapsychologist and UFO researcher. He resided in Argentina from 1951 on.

Kaii Higashiyama was a Japanese writer and artist particularly renowned for his Nihonga style paintings. As one of the most popular artists in post-war Japan, Higashiyama was awarded the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1956 and the Order of Culture in 1969.

Nelly Lucinda Consuelo Meruane Solano was a distinguished Chilean actress and teacher whose career spanned 65 years. For 20 years she was a member of the stable cast of the Teatro Ensayo of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.