List of Famous people who died at 90
Edi Ziegler
Edwin Ziegler was a German road racing cyclist. He won the bronze medal in the men's individual road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, behind two Belgians: André Noyelle (gold) and Robert Grondelaers (silver). He was a professional rider from 1957 to 1959.
René Vignal
René Vignal was a French footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Toulouse, RC Paris and Béziers at club level as well as the French national team.
Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
Sheikh Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi was a businessman and philanthropist from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was the founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, the largest Islamic banking institution.
Desmond Connell
Desmond Connell KGCHS was an Irish cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He was an Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. Cardinal Connell was one of a number of senior clergy to have been heavily criticised for inaction and for making misleading statements in connection with clerical sex abuse in Dublin. He died on 21 February 2017, aged 90.
Nikolai Smorchkov
Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov was a Soviet and Russian film actor.
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Nils Olof Thorbjörn Fälldin was a Swedish politician. He was Prime Minister of Sweden in three non-consecutive cabinets from 1976 to 1982, and leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1971 to 1985. On his first appointment in 1976, he was the first non-Social Democrat Prime Minister for 40 years and the first since the 1930s not to have worked as a professional politician since his teens.
Krizia
Mariuccia Mandelli was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. Mandelli established her ready-to-wear fashion house, Krizia, in 1954 by bringing suitcases of samples to shops in Milan out of her Fiat 500. The Guardian has called her the "godmother of Italian fashion." According to the New York Times, Mandelli was one of the first female fashion designers to create a popular line of men's wear.
Asta Nielsen
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta.
Zdeněk Miler
Zdeněk Miler was a Czech animator and illustrator best known for his Mole character and its adventures.
Patrick Jenkin
Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, was a British Conservative politician who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government.