List of Famous people who died in 1990

Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".

Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers FRS (4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a British biochemist. She became the second president of the European Thyroid Association in 1971. She succeeded Jean Roche and was followed by Jack Gross in this position, all three names inextricably linked with the discovery of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T₃).

Aino Regina Taube was a Swedish film and theatre actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1931 and 1988.

Gershom Gustav Schocken was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of Haaretz for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959.

General Alexej Čepička was a Czechoslovak communist politician.

Thomas Dudley Harmon, sometimes known by the nickname "Old 98", was an American football player, military pilot, actor, and sports broadcaster.

Blake Raymond Pelly, was an Australian air force officer, politician and businessman, who represented the Liberal Party in New South Wales Parliament.