List of Famous people who died at 90
Luna Leopold
Luna Bergere Leopold was a leading U.S. geomorphologist and hydrologist, and son of Aldo Leopold. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1936; an M.S. in physics-meteorology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944; and a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1950.
Aliki Diplarakou
Aliki, Lady Russell, née Aliki Diplarakou, was the first Greek contestant to win the Miss Europe title. She previously won the "Miss Hellas" title at the Miss Star Hellas Pageant. Her name has been spelled in various ways, from Alice Diplarakou to Aliki Diplearakos and Aliki Diplarakos.
Juan Hidalgo Codorniu
Juan Hidalgo Codorniu was a Spanish composer, poet, an action and visual artist.
Ödön Földessy
Ödön Földessy was a Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the long jump. He was born in Békés. He competed for Hungary in the men's long jump event at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the bronze medal.
Oscar Furlong
Oscar Alberto Furlong was an Argentine basketball player, and tennis player and coach. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a basketball player, he was a FIBA World Cup champion in 1950, who also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, and at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games. Furlong was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame in September 2007.
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie Louise Kwolek was an American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar. She was of Polish heritage and her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years. She discovered the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness: poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty.
Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair
Arnold Duncan McNair, 1st Baron McNair, was a British legal scholar, university teacher, judge of the International Court of Justice and later the first president of the European Court of Human Rights.
David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone
Captain David Peter Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone, KStJ was a naval officer and British peer.
Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey
Geoffrey Lawrence, 3rd Baron Trevethin, 1st Baron Oaksey, was the main British judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II, and President of the Judicial group.