Deaths in October 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1989[edit]
1[edit]
- Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican agriculturalist, businessman and politician, car accident.
- Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor.
- Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor.[1]
2[edit]
- Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress.
- Aubrey Boomer, 91, American golfer, stroke.
- Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, heart attack.
- Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer.
3[edit]
- Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer.
- Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke.
- Norman Yardley, 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke.
4[edit]
- Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer, tonsil cancer.[2]
- Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer.
5[edit]
- Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[3]
- Ernesto Formenti, 62, Italian boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
- Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
- Dicky Ralph, 81, Welsh international rugby player.
6[edit]
- Bette Davis, 81, American actress, cancer.[4]
- Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor, critic, screenwriter and director, ruptured aneurysm.
- Paul Henry, 77, Belgian footballer.
- Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist.
- Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe Major and ace.
7[edit]
- Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, cancer.
- Abe Landa, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
- Forrest McPherson, 77, American NFL footballer.
- Aleksanteri Saarvala, 76, Finnish gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
8[edit]
- Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist.
9[edit]
- Ernst Andersson, 80, Swedish international footballer.
- Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack.
- James Chabot, 62, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
- Herman Clark, 58, American NFL footballer.
- Alan Hulme, 82, Australian politician, Postmaster-General of Australia.
- Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-American writer, liver failure.
10[edit]
- Robin Hughes, 69, British film and television actor.
11[edit]
- Roberts Dunstan, 66, Australian politician, soldier and aviator during the Second World War.
- Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect.[5]
- M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist, pulmonary embolism.[6]
- Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director, AIDS.
12[edit]
- Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer.
- Joe Foy, 46, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.[7]
- Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS.
- Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
- Jay Ward, 69, American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows, renal cancer.[8]
- N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet, journalist and scholar.
13[edit]
- Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.
- Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
- Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash.[9]
- Patrick McAuliffe, 75, Irish Labour Party politician.
- Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic high jumper and javelin thrower.
- Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter.[10]
14[edit]
- Martin Broszat, 63, German historian.[11]
- Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian silent-screen actress.
- Klavdiya Mayuchaya, 71, Soviet javelin thrower and European champion.
- René Petit, 90, Franco-Spanish engineer and international footballer.
15[edit]
- James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
- Giuseppe Gandini, 89, Italian international footballer.
- Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian literary critic, journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure.
- Tadevos Hakobyan, 72, Armenian historian and geographer.
- Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, lung cancer.
- Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer, prostate cancer.
- Michał Rola-Żymierski, 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland.
16[edit]
- Walter Farley, 74, American author, cancer.[12]
- Frederick Millar, 89, British diplomat, British Ambassador to West Germany.
- Mário Vianna, 87, Brazilian football referee, pneumonia.
- Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor, leukemia.[13]
17[edit]
- John J. Anderson, 32, American writer and editor on computing and technology, building collapse in earthquake.
- Jack Beynon, 76, American football player.
- Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician.
- Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician.[14]
- R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident.
18[edit]
- Mirko Bonačić, 86, Croatian footballer and Olympian.
- Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, 67, Princess consort of Liechtenstein.
19[edit]
- Eric Dixon, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist, composer and arranger.
- Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer.
- Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
- Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor, heart attack.
20[edit]
- Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor, theatre director and novelist, liver cancer.[15]
- Arthur Spjuth, 85, Swedish art director.
21[edit]
- Jean Image, 78, Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films.
- Bud Marquardt, 75, Canadian footballer.
22[edit]
- Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer, songwriter, political activist and actor, complications following heart surgery.
- Tony Manero, 84, American golfer.
- Roland Winters, 84, American actor, stroke.[16]
23[edit]
- Edmund E. Anderson, 83, American automotive designer.
- Armida, 78, Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian, heart attack.
- Bert Hyde, 82, Australian rules footballer.
- Clive Lewington, 69, Australian rules footballer.
24[edit]
- Dean Alfange, 91, American politician, Deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer.[17]
- General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian Army officer.
- Ralph Chase, 86, American NFL footballer.
- Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain.
- Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer.
- Sam Smith, 62–63, English rugby league footballer and World Cup winner.
- Doris Huestis Speirs, 95, Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet.
25[edit]
- Enrico Forcella, 82, Venezuelan shooter and Olympic medalist.
- Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist, critic and political activist, lung cancer.[18]
- Gerard Walschap, 91, Belgian writer.
26[edit]
- Don Bass, 33, American NFL footballer, shot.
- Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.[19]
- Gordon Reid, 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer.
- Anders Rydberg, 86, Swedish footballer.
- Kumeko Urabe, 87, Japanese movie actress, burns.
27[edit]
- Con Moulson, 83, Irish footballer and manager.
- Benjamin Murmelstein, 84, Austrian rabbi.
- Alfred Wilson, 85, American rower and Olympic gold medalist.[20]
28[edit]
- Laurent Di Lorto, 80, French international footballer.
- Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver.
- Henry Hall, 91, English bandleader.
- Louise Hay, 54, French-born American mathematician, breast cancer.
- Liam Redmond, 76, Irish stage, film and television actor.
- Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director.
- Kateb Yacine, 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays.[21]
29[edit]
- Roland Anderson, 85, American movie art director.
- Jack Barker, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- Róża Maria Goździewska, 53, Polish child nurse during Warsaw uprising.
30[edit]
- Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 88, American attorney and U.S. district judge, complications from pneumonia.[22]
- Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director.
- Aristid Lindenmayer, 63, Hungarian biologist.
- Yisrael Spira, 99, Holocaust survivor.
- Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, complications from diabetes.[23]
31[edit]
- Conrad Beck, 88, Swiss composer.
- Washington Saldías Fuentealba, 62, Chilean politician, Mayor of Pichilemu.
- Elliott Loughlin, 79, American U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
- Francesc Miró-Sans, 73, Spanish businessman and president of FC Barcelona.
- Roger Scott, 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer.
Unknown date[edit]
- Wilgar Campbell, 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness.
- Francis J. Love, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
References[edit]
- ^ "Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish Conductor, Dies". The New York Times. October 3, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Constance L. Hays (October 5, 1989). "Graham Chapman, 48, Comedy Troupe Founder". The New York Times. p. B 22. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Robert Ashmore, 85, Former Congressman". The New York Times. October 7, 1989. p. 1 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Albin Krebs (October 8, 1989). "Bette Davis, a Queen of Hollywood, Dies at 81". The New York Times. p. 1 1. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Paul Goldberger (October 12, 1989). "Percival Goodman, 85, Synagogue Designer, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 12. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Alfonso A. Narvaez (October 17, 1989). "M. King Hubbert, 86, Geologist; Research Changed Oil Production". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Joe Foy, Baseball Player, 46". The New York Times. October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Andrew L. Yarrow (October 14, 1989). "JAY WARD, 69, THE TV CARTOONIST WHO CREATED BULLWINKLE, IS DEAD". The New York Times. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Merab Kostava, 50, a Soviet Rights Figure". The New York Times. October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Kevin Sack (October 16, 1989). "Cesare Zavattini, 87, Screenwriter Who Worked With De Sica, Dies". The New York Times. p. D 15. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Eric Pace (November 2, 1989). "Martin Broszat, German Historian And War Crimes Expert, 63, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 21. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Albert Scardino (October 18, 1989). "Walter Farley, 74, A Writer of a Series On a Black Stallion". The New York Times. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Peter B. Flint (October 17, 1989). "Cornel Wilde, 74, a Performer and Film Producer". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Cyril Mathew, Sri Lanka Politician, 77". The New York Times. October 18, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Glenn Collins (October 21, 1989). "Sir Anthony Quayle, British Actor And Theater Director, Dies at 76". The New York Times. p. 1 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Roland Winters, 84; Played Charlie Chan". The New York Times. October 25, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Glenn Fowler (October 27, 1989). "Dean Alfange, Liberal Leader, Is Dead at 91". The New York Times. p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ Michiko Kakutani (October 26, 1989). "Mary McCarthy, 77, Is Dead; Novelist, Memoirist and Critic". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ John T. McQuiston (October 27, 1989). "Charles Pedersen, 85, Nobel Winner in Chemistry". The New York Times. p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Alfred Wilson, 85, 1924 Olympic Medalist". The New York Times. October 28, 1989. p. 1 11. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Kateb Yacine, Novelist And Poet, Is Dead at 60". The New York Times. October 31, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Ted Dalton, 88, Dies; Retired Federal Judge". The New York Times. November 2, 1989. p. B 21. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
- ^ "Pedro Vargas, a Mexican Singer And Film Performer, Is Dead at 85". The New York Times. October 31, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.