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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]