[img]http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/bb_badges/death.jpg[/img] Unusual Deaths in 1990 [spoiler] * Joseph w. burrus, aged 32, an aspiring magician, decided to perform the "buried alive" illusion in a plastic box covered with cement. the cement crushed the box and he died of asphyxia. * George allen, an american football coach, died a month after some of his players gave him a gatorade shower following a victory (as it is tradition in american football). some argue this resulted in pneumonia. Natural disasters in 1990 * 1990 Iran earthquake * 1990 Luzon earthquake People who died on December 30 (various years) *[b] 2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President (b. 1937) (executed)[/b] -- he was dying wen i celebrated my bday last2 yr?? * 2005 - Rona Jaffe, American author * 2004 - Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader * 2003 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress * 2003 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer * 2003 - David Bale, South African-born activist (cancer) * 2002 - Mary Wesley, English novelist * 2002 - Mary Brian, American actress * 2000 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter * 1999 - Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person * 1999 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer * 1998 - Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) * 1998 - George Webb, English actor * 1997 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist * 1996 - Jack Nance, American actor * 1996 - Lew Ayres, American actor * 1995 - Doris Grau, American actress * 1994 - Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr * 1994 - Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist * 1993 - Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist * 1993 - Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent * 1993 - Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter * 1992 - Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China * 1989 - Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves * 1988 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer * 1986 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist * 1984 - Massa (gorilla), oldest gorilla on record * 1979 - Richard Rodgers, American composer * 1971 - Melba Rae, American actress (Search for Tomorrow) * 1970 - Sonny Liston, American boxer * 1968 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General * 1967 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada * 1955 - Rex Ingamells, Australian poet * 1954 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal * 1944 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate * 1941 - El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect * 1908 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator * 1896 - José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861) (executed) * 1803 - Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence * 1769 - Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier * 1691 - Robert Boyle, Irish scientist * 1662 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria * 1644 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist * 1640 - John Francis Regis, French saint * 1621 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint * 1591 - Pope Innocent IX * 1573 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer * 1572 - Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect * 1525 - Jacob Fugger, German banker * 1460 - Richard, Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) * 1218 - Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician[/spoiler]