List of Famous people who died in 1990

Gérard Blitz was a Belgian entrepreneur and Yogi.

Giuseppe Ciribini was an Italian engineer and professor, considered the father of the discipline of architectural technology in Italy.

Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project and in the creation of the nuclear bomb. Robert Oppenheimer assembled a team at the Los Alamos Laboratory to work on plutonium gun design Thin Man, that included senior engineer Edwin McMillan and senior physicists Charles Critchfield and Joseph Hirschfelder. Hirschfelder had been working on internal ballistics. Oppenheimer led the design effort himself until June 1943, when Navy Captain William Sterling Parsons arrived took over the Ordnance and Engineering Division and direct management of the "Thin Man" project. Hirschfelder was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a group leader in theoretical physics and ordnance at the Los Alamos Atomic Bomb Laboratory, chief phenomenologist at the nuclear bomb tests at Bikini, the founder of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute and the Homer Adkins professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. Hirschfelder was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the National Medal of Science from President Gerald Ford “for his fundamental contributions to atomic and molecular quantum mechanics, the theory of the rates of chemical reactions, and the structure and properties of gases and liquids”.

Brendan Corish was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Tánaiste and Minister for Health from 1973 to 1977, Leader of the Labour Party, Minister for Social Welfare from 1954 to 1957 and from 1973 to 1977, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government from 1948 to 1951. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1948 to 1982.

Ernest Charles Lucet was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States.

Irving Israel was an American actor, director and producer. He was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards in the categories Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Television Movie for his work on the television programs The Name of the Game and Quincy, M.E.. Irving died in December 1990 of a heart surgery at the hospital in San Diego, California, at the age of 73. He was buried in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.

Harold Kay (1926–1990) was a French actor.