Famous People Who Died in 1990

• Blakey, Art

  Drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers

• Carvel, Thomas

  Founder of the Carvel ice cream empire

• Copland, Aaron

  American composer who wrote Appalachian Spring

• Cruzan, Nancy

  The subject of Cruzan v. Missouri

• Cullen, Bill

  The game show host with the horn-rimmed glasses

• Dahl, Roald

  The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Davis, Sammy Jr.

  Singer of "The Candy Man"

• Edgerton, Harold

  The professor who made strobe photography popular

• Garbo, Greta

  The starlet who said "I want to be alone"

• Gardner, Ava

  The Oscar-nominated actress who married Frank Sinatra

• Goddard, Paulette

  Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times

• Gordon, Dexter

  Long, tall tenor sax jazz legend

• Haring, Keith

  The 'Radiant Baby' graffiti artist who died of AIDS in 1990

• Harrison, Rex

  Professor Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady

• Henson, Jim

  The creator of Kermit the Frog

• Martin, Mary

  The star who played Peter Pan on Broadway and TV

• Oliver, Susan

  Vina in the episode "The Menagerie" of the TV series Star Trek

• Price, Roger

  The creator of Droodles and Mad Libs

• Puig, Manuel

  The author of Kiss of the Spider Woman

• Salmi, Albert

  The TV character actor who played Bo in the original Broadway production of Bus Stop

• Shannon, Del

  The singer of the hit song "Runaway"

• Skinner, B.F.

  The behaviorist who invented the Skinner Box

• Smith, Dodie

  The author of The Hundred and One Dalmations

• Stanwyck, Barbara

  The dangerous femme fatale in the film Double Indemnity

• Vaughan, Stevie Ray

  Lead singer and guitarist for the band Double Trouble

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