Deaths in August 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1989.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 1989
[edit]1
[edit]- Don Heffner, 78, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns).[1]
- John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-born Canadian theatre director (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), AIDS.[2]
- John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia.[3]
2
[edit]- Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer and songwriter.[4]
3
[edit]- Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer ("The Patriot Game"), pancreatic cancer.[5]
- Antonia Brico, 87, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist.[6]
- William Larimer Mellon Jr., 79, American philanthropist and physician, cancer and Parkinson's disease.[7]
- Peggy Montgomery, 84, American silent-screen actress (Arizona Days).
- Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist (crystal dislocation).[8]
- Colston Westbrook, 51, American teacher and linguist, cancer.[9]
4
[edit]- Paolo Baffi, 77, Italian banker and economist, governor of the Bank of Italy.[10]
- Amador Bendayán, 68, Venezuelan actor and entertainer (Sábado Sensacional).[11]
- Maurice Colbourne, 49, English actor (Howards' Way), heart attack.[12]
- Geoffrey Cross, 84, British barrister and judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.[13]
- Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist (Disney comics).
- Larry Parnes, 59, British pop manager, meningitis.
- Taghi Riahi, 78, Iranian officer in Iranian Imperial Army.
- W. Wallace Smith, 88, American grandson of Joseph Smith Jr., president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.[14]
5
[edit]- John Kinard, 52, American social activist and pastor, director of Anacostia Museum, myelofibrosis.[15]
- John Larsen, 75, Norwegian rifle shooter and Olympic gold medalist.[16]
- Max Macon, 73, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers).[17]
- Helen Thomas, 22, Welsh peace activist (Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp), struck by police vehicle.[18]
- Stacey Toran, 27, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Raiders), car accident.[19]
6
[edit]- Hubert Beuve-Méry, 87, French journalist and newspaper editor (Le Monde), complications from a fall.[20]
- Beattie Casely-Hayford, 67, Ghanaian founder of the National Dance Ensemble, director of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.
- Don Clark, 65, American footballer and coach (San Francisco 49ers), heart attack.[21]
- Nat Levine, 90, American film producer (Mascot Pictures).[22]
- P.R. Olgiati, 87, American politician, mayor of Chattanooga.[23]
- Frank Sinkovitz, 66, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers) and umpire.[24]
7
[edit]- Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, 73, Mexican politician, governor of Sinaloa.
- Gerhard de Kock, 63, South African Reserve Bank governor, colon cancer.[25]
- Robert Jani, 55, American event producer, Lou Gehrig's disease.[26]
- Mickey Leland, 44, American politician, anti-poverty activist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.[27]
- Robert Stevens, 68, American television and movie director (Suspense), heart attack after beating.[28]
- Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director, co-founder of Atelje 212, cancer.[29]
8
[edit]- Irving Cottler, 71, American percussionist, heart attack.[30]
- Robert Kaske, 68, American professor of medieval literature, brain tumour.[31]
- Enrico Lorenzetti, 78, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, 250 cc World Championship winner.[32]
- Brian Naylor, 66, British racing driver, boating accident.[33]
- Bobby Oxspring, 70, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.[34]
- George Papp, 73, American comics artist (Superboy).
- Mary Peppin, 76, half of a British twin-sister piano duo act, piano teacher at Guildhall School of Music.
- Audrey Russell, 83, British BBC Radio journalist and war reporter, Alzheimer's disease.[35]
- Maja Sacher, 93, Swiss art collector and philanthropist.[36]
- Morris Shenker, 82, American lawyer, known for connection to Jimmy Hoffa, pneumonia.[37]
- László Willinger, 80, German-born American photographer, heart failure.[38]
9
[edit]- Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor.[39]
- K. Gunaratnam, 72, Sri Lankan film producer, murdered.[40]
- Duncan MacPherson, 23, Canadian ice hockey player, body found in melting glacier.[41]
- Kathleen Maguire, 63, American actress (The Time of the Cuckoo, A Flame in the Wind), esophageal cancer.[42]
10
[edit]- H. Montgomery Hyde, 81, Irish barrister, politician and author, Member of Parliament.[43]
- George Ignatieff, 75, Russian-born Canadian diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations.[44]
- Pierre Matisse, 89, French-born American art dealer.[45]
11
[edit]- Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, 69–72, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan.
- Bill Cody Jr., 64, American child actor, suicide.[46]
- Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[47]
- John Meillon, 55, Australian actor (Crocodile Dundee, The Fourth Wish), cirrhosis.[48]
- Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist ("Late Freight").[49]
- Richard Ward, 71, British army general, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong.[50]
12
[edit]- Mo Anthoine, 50, British mountaineer, brain tumour.[51]
- Emyr Estyn Evans, 84, Welsh geographer and archaeologist.[52]
- Henri Goetz, 79, American-born French painter, member of the French Resistance.[53]
- Samuel Okwaraji, 25, Nigerian international footballer (Nigeria), heart failure.[54]
- William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (Shockley diode), eugenicist, prostate cancer.[55]
- Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians).[56]
13
[edit]- Willy De Bruyn, 75, Belgian trans-gender cyclist.[57]
- Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentinian actor, director and tango singer (Las Aguas Bajan Turbias).[58]
- Tim Richmond, 34, American race car driver, AIDS.[59]
- Larkin I. Smith, 45, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.[60]
14
[edit]- Robert Bernard Anderson, 79, American politician, secretary of the Navy and Treasury, throat cancer.[61]
- Bergen (Belgin Sarılmışer), 31, Turkish singer, shot.
- Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer (Sacramento Kings), suicide.[62]
- Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor.[63]
- Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City.[64]
15
[edit]- William Sydney Atkins, 87, English founder of Atkins engineering consultancy.[65]
- Wolfram Eberhard, 80, German-born Turkish and American professor of sociology.[66]
- Minoru Genda, 84, Japanese navy general noted for planning attack on Pearl Harbor, and politician.[67]
- Elvy Kalep, 90, Estonian aviator, country's first female pilot.[68]
- Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
- Earl B. Ruth, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of American Samoa.[69]
- Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, 92, Greek army general, chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff, ambassador to Yugoslavia.
16
[edit]- Jean-Hilaire Aubame, 76, Gabonese politician, Foreign Minister of Gabon.[70]
- Amanda Blake, 60, American actress (Gunsmoke), AIDS.[71]
- Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist, pederast.[72]
- Anton Nilson, 101, Swedish terrorist and convicted murderer.[73]
17
[edit]- Jack Chrisman, 61, American drag racer.
- Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer and television presenter (Sooty).[74]
- Stavro Skëndi, 83–84, Albanian-American linguist and historian, Parkinson's disease.[75]
- Fred Frankhouse, 85, American Major League baseballer (Boston Braves).[76]
- Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
18
[edit]- Robert Buckner, 83, American screenwriter and short story writer (Dodge City, Yankee Doodle Dandy).[77]
- Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated.[78]
- Yūji Koseki, 80, Japanese song and film score composer ("Roei no Uta", "The Bells of Nagasaki").
- Imre Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic gold medalist.[79]
- Bert Oosterbosch, 32, Dutch racing cyclist, cardiac arrest.[80]
- Waldemar Franklin Quintero, 48, Colombian police officer, commander of National Police, assassinated.[81]
- Chrissie White, 94, British silent-screen actress (The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss), heart attack.[82]
19
[edit]- Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense, governor of Negros and Siquijor Islands.
- Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer (Miami Dolphins), heart attack.[83]
- Joseph A. Pechman, 71, American economist and taxation scholar, president of the American Economic Association, heart attack.[84]
20
[edit]- George Adamson, 83, British wildlife conservationist and author in Kenya (Elsa the lioness), murdered.[85]
- Clarence Glacken, 80, American professor of Geography.[86]
- H. B. Halicki, 48, American director, stunt driver and actor (Gone in 60 Seconds), accident while filming.[87]
- Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer (Laura).[88]
- Tenryū Saburō, 85, Japanese sumo wrestler (Shunjuen Incident).
- Syd van der Vyver, 69, South African racing driver.
21
[edit]- William F. Bolger, 66, American Postmaster General, president of the Air Transport Association of America.[89]
- Scott Fenton, 24, Australian NBL basketballer (Sydney Supersonics, Perth Wildcats), car crash.[90]
- Heikki H. Herlin, 88, Finnish engineer, manager of Kone elevators.
- Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, 78, German geographer, explorer and writer.
- Raul Seixas, 44, Brazilian rock singer, songwriter and producer, cardiac arrest.
- Phyllis Terrell, 91, American suffragist and civil rights activist.[91]
- Ted Wilks, 73, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals).[92]
22
[edit]- Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, 85, British physician and politician.[93]
- Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress (Mannequin in Red).[94]
- Sunbeam Mitchell, 82, American businessman, hotel and nightclub owner, heart attack.
- Huey P. Newton, 47, American political activist, founder of the Black Panther party, probable murderer, murdered.[95]
- Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician.
- Gerhard Reinhardt, 73, East German politician and German Resistance fighter.
- Vlasta Vraz, 89, Czech-American relief worker, editor and fundraiser.[96]
- Diana Vreeland, 85, American fashion columnist and editor, editor in chief at Vogue, heart attack.[97]
23
[edit]- Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, 45, Sudanese poet.[98]
- P. O. Ackley, 86, American gunsmith.
- Al Cass, 65, American musician and musical inventor.[99]
- Walter de Sousa, 68, Ugandan-born Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.[100]
- Katharina Jacob, 82, German member of the anti-Nazi German Resistance movement.
- R. D. Laing, 61, Scottish psychiatrist (psychosis, schizophrenia), heart attack.[101]
- Nebojša Mitrić, 58, Yugoslavian sculptor and painter, suicide.[102]
24
[edit]- Jacques Godechot, 82, French historian of the French Revolution.[103]
- Marjorie Pratt, 89, British aristocrat.
- Feliks Topolski, 82, Polish-born British expressionist painter and draughtsman, official war artist.[104]
25
[edit]- Gunnar Berg, 80, Swiss-born Danish composer.[105]
- Jim Brideweser, 62, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox).[106]
- Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor.[107]
- Al Cherney, 56, Canadian fiddler, lung cancer.[108]
- Yan Frenkel, 68, Ukrainian composer and performer.[109]
- Jerry Masslo, 29, South African refugee.
- Sarjoo Pandey, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
- Roman Palester, 81, Polish composer of classical music.[110]
- Jean-Louis Verdier, 54, French mathematician (Verdier duality), car accident.[111]
- Bronwen Wallace, 44, Canadian poet and short story writer, cancer.[112]
- A. J. Witono, 64, Indonesian military officer and diplomat, ambassador to Japan.[113]
26
[edit]- Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet and writer.[114]
- Juanita Brooks, 91, American historian and author, Alzheimer's disease.[115]
- Nick Nuccio, 87, American politician, mayor of Tampa, Florida.[116]
- Irving Stone, 86, American writer (Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy), heart failure.[117]
27
[edit]- Gloria Milland, 48, Italian actress.
- Eckart Muthesius, 85, German architect and interior designer (Manik Bagh palace).[118]
- Ramnandan Mishra, 83–84, Indian independence fighter.
- Burhan Shahidi, 94, Russian-born Chinese politician, governor of Xinjiang.[119]
- Bill Shirley, 68, American tenor, actor and producer (Sleeping Beauty, My Fair Lady), lung cancer.[120]
28
[edit]- Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist, CIA operative, lung cancer.[121]
- Robert Macintosh, 91, New Zealand–born British anaesthetist.[122]
- Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS.
- John Steptoe, 38, American author and illustrator for children’s books (Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters), AIDS.[123]
29
[edit]- Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 66, Argentinian-born American fashion designer, lung cancer.[124]
- Pua Kealoha, 86, Hawaiian-born American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.[125]
- Lorenzo Natali, 66, Italian politician, Minister of Public Works.[126]
- Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist and Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack.[127]
30
[edit]- Joe Collins, 66, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees).[128]
- Joe de Santis, 80, American actor and sculptor (A Cold Wind in August), pulmonary disease.[129]
- Seymour Krim, 67, American author, suicide.[130]
- Dinkar Mehta, 81, Indian politician and trade unionist, leader of the Communist Party of India, mayor of Ahmedabad.[131]
- Dink Roberts, 94, American banjo player.[132]
- Dorothy Schiff, 86, American businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post.[133]
- Ekkehard Tertsch, 83, Spanish-Austrian journalist and Nazi diplomat.
31
[edit]- Maribel Arrieta, 55, Salvadoran television host and model, Miss El Salvador, cancer.[134]
- Michele Cascella, 96, Italian artist.[135]
- Moe Dalitz, 89, American gangster, businessman and casino owner, heart and kidney failure.[136]
- Mickey Hawks, 49, American singer and pianist ("Bip Bop Boom").
- Vladimir Littauer, 97, Russian and American horseback riding master and author.[137]
- Claire Luce, 85, American actress, dancer and singer (Up the River, Under Secret Orders).[138]
- Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox).[139]
- Gerhard Scholz, 85, German professor and writer (Philology, German studies).
- Heen Banda Udurawana, 88, Sri Lankan politician, member of the Senate of Ceylon.[140]
- Ruth Wood, 73, British racehorse owner, Epsom Derby winner.
Unknown date
[edit]- Bill Ainslie, 55, South African artist.[141]
- Louis Dolivet, 81, Austro-Hungarian–born French film producer and alleged Soviet spy, editor of Free World.
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