List of Famous people who died in 1990
Kwok Tak-Seng
Kwok Tak-seng OBE was a Hong Kong businessman. He was the founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties, one of the major property developers in Hong Kong.
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild was a British banker, scientist, intelligence officer during World War II, and later a senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons, and an advisor to the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments of the UK. He was a member of the prominent Rothschild family.
Princess Maria Alix of Saxony
Franz Joseph Maria Ludwig Anton Thassilo Prinz von Hohenzollern-Emden was a member of the Roman Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern. He was born as Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzollern and adopted the surname Prinz von Hohenzollern-Emden in 1933.
Manuel Puig
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia
Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia was the youngest child of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888–1934) and Maria of Yugoslavia (1900–1961). His paternal grandparents were King Peter I of Serbia (1844-1921) and Princess Zorka of Montenegro (1864-1890), while his maternal grandparents were King Ferdinand of Romania (1865–1927) and Princess Marie of Edinburgh (1875–1938).
Sergey Volkov
Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet figure skater. He won the 1975 World title and placed second in 1974.
Akiko Shiga
Akiko Shiga was a Japanese actress and singer.
Wolfgang Büttner
Wolfgang Büttner was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1950 to 1998.
Raymond Huntley
Horace Raymond Huntley was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon.
Karl Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
Karl, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was a German Roman Catholic nobleman. From 1948 to 1967 he was president of the Central Committee of German Catholics. Born as Prinz zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, he inherited the title of 'Erbrpinz' on his father's accession in 1921 and became Fürst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg on his father's death in 1952.