Deaths in September 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1989
1
- Kevin Andrews, 65, American archaeologist and writer, drowned.[1]
- Paul Chung, 30, Hong Kong actor, suicide.
- Kazimierz Deyna, 41, Polish international footballer (Legia Warsaw, Poland), car accident.[2]
- Bart Giamatti, 51, American Commissioner of Major League Baseball, heart attack.[3]
- Cyril Gill, 87, British Olympic sprinter (1928).[4]
- Dipa Ma, 78, Indian meditation teacher.[5]
- Albert Outler, 80, American Methodist historian and pastor, stroke.[6]
- Shah Azizur Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.[7]
- Leslie Runciman, 89, British shipping magnate.[8]
- Tadeusz Sendzimir, 95, Polish engineer and inventor, stroke.[9]
- Yevgeny Veltistov, 55, Soviet writer and screenwriter.
2
- Clifton Parker, 84, British composer.
- Brian Robinson, appr. 27, Northern Ireland loyalist militant (Ulster Volunteer Force), shot.[10]
3
- John Augustine Collins, 90, Royal Australian Navy vice admiral, Chief of Navy.[11]
- Augie Lio, 71, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions).[12]
- Sten Mellgren, 89, Swedish Olympic footballer (1924).[13]
- Gaetano Scirea, 36, Italian international footballer (Juventus, Italy), car accident.[14]
- Rip Sewell, 82, American Major League baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[15]
- Meena Shorey, 67, Pakistani film actress (Ek Thi Larki).
4
- Gastón Cibert, 71, Argentine Olympic sailor (1948).[16]
- Colin Clark, 83, British and Australian economist and statistician (gross national product).[17]
- Zenon Kliszko, 80, Polish politician.[18]
- Hal Lee, 84, American MLB player (Brooklyn Robins, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Braves/Bees).[19]
- Carl-August von Schoenebeck, 91, Nazi German general in the Luftwaffe.[20]
- Georges Simenon, 86, Belgian writer (Jules Maigret), complications from a fall.[21]
- Sir Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand–born British classicist and historian (The Roman Revolution).[22]
5
- Les Allen, 78, Australian rules footballer.
- Sir Philip Baxter, 84, British and Australian chemical engineer, chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission.[23]
- Michael Fidler, 73, British politician, Member of Parliament.[24]
- William Mann, 65, English music critic, complications from surgery.[25]
- J. Barkley Rosser, 81, American logician (Church–Rosser theorem), aneurysm.[26]
6
- Jessie Mae Brown Beavers, 66, American journalist.[27]
- Edwin Arthur Burtt, 96, American philosopher.[28]
- Imre Hennyei, 76, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1948, 1952).[29]
- Mick Higgins, 78, Australian rules footballer.[30]
- Muhammad Ibrahim, 77, Bangladeshi physician.[31]
- Gina Manès, 96, French film actress.[32]
- Stephen Nankervis, 99, Australian rules footballer.[33]
- Héctor Ricardo, 64, Argentine footballer.[34]
- Jimmy Ruffell, 89, English international footballer (West Ham United, England).[35]
7
- Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman, World Championship gold medalist, heart attack.[36]
- Valery Goborov, 23, Soviet basketball player, Olympic gold medalist (1988), car crash.[37]
- Mikhail Goldstein, 71, German composer and violinist.[38]
- Joseph McCann, 63, Australian Olympic diver (1956).[39]
8
- Frederic L. Chapin, 60, American diplomat, ambassador to Ethiopia, Guatemala and Chad, cancer.[40]
- Keef Cowboy, 28, American rapper, invented term "hip hop", drug overdose.
- Henri Disy, 76, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1936).[41]
- Ann George, 86, English actress (Crossroads), cancer.
- Aleardo Simoni, 87, Italian cyclist.[42]
- Paul Alfred Weiss, 91, Austrian and American biologist.[43]
9
- Elephter Andronikashvili, 78, Georgian physicist.[44]
- Heinrich Angst, 73, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (1948, 1956).[45]
- Christopher Chancellor, 85, British journalist, general manager of Reuters.[46]
- Radharani Devi, 85, Indian poet.[47]
- Oleksiy Fedorov, 88, Soviet army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.[48]
- Josette Frank, 96, American children's literature expert, pneumonia.[49]
- Tim Hovey, 44, American child actor, road manager of Grateful Dead, suicide.[50]
- Vince Hughes, 83, Australian rugby league footballer.
- John McShain, 92, American building contractor, "The Man Who Built Washington", stroke.[51]
10
- Okie Blanchard, 86, American college football player and coach (Wyoming Cowboys).
- Dutch Elston, 70, American football player and coach.[52]
- Charles H. Griffin, 63, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1968-1973).[53]
- Jeff Stollmeyer, 68, Trinidad and Tobago test cricketer and captain (West Indies) and senator, wounds from home invaders.[54]
11
- Lucy Carnegie Ferguson, 89, American preservationist (Cumberland Island).[55]
- Paul Gann, 77, American political activist, pneumonia.[56]
- Norman Goff, 68, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1956).[57]
- Bill Wood, 67, Australian rules footballer.[58]
12
- Henry Benton, 70, Australian rugby league player.[59]
- Josef Boháč, 75, Czechoslovak Olympic ice hockey player (1936).[60]
- George Gniel, 70, Australian rules footballer.
- Gladys Jayawardene, Sri Lankan physician, chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka, assassinated.[61]
- John D. Landers, 69 American officer in the United States Army Air Forces.[62]
- Anton Lubowski, 37, Namibian anti-apartheid activist and advocate, assassinated.[63]
- Fishbait Miller, 80, American Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[64]
- Sterjo Spasse, 75, Albanian prose writer and novelist.
- Seamus Twomey, 69, Irish republican militant activist, chief of staff of the Provisional I.R.A..[65]
- Don Walker, 81, American Broadway orchestrator and composer.[66]
13
- Acharya Aatreya, 68, Indian poet, playwright and screenwriter.
- Gilles Andriamahazo, 70, Madagascan general in the French army, head of state of Madagascar, heart attack.[67]
- Jack Baldwin, 68, American football player.[68]
- Sir David Bartlett, 77, British Olympic fencer (1936).[69]
- John Bunyan, 84, American NFL player (Staten Island Stapletons, Brooklyn Dodgers).[70]
- Zoltán Dudás, 56, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1960).[71]
- Arieh Dulzin, 76, Israeli politician.
- Géza Frid, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born Dutch composer and pianist.[72]
- Sagarika Gomes, 27, Sri Lankan newscaster, abducted and murdered.[73]
- Kamal Irani, 57, Pakistani film actor (Shaheed), heart attack.
- Cyril Parsloe, 80, New Zealand cricketer.
- Charles H. Russell, 85, American politician, Governor of Nevada, heart attack.[74]
- Ron Whyte, 47, American playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.[75]
- John Yovicsin, 70, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart disease.[76]
14
- John Bright, 81, American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.[77]
- Tim Brown, 51, American figure skater, World Figure Skating Championships medalist, AIDS.[78]
- Castor Elzo, 71, Spanish footballer.
- Eddie McLeod, 88, New Zealand cricketer.[79]
- Marvin Middlemark, 69, American inventor of the Rabbit Ears television antenna.[80]
- Benjamin Peary Pal, 83, Indian plant breeder and agronomist, director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.[81]
- Dámaso Pérez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader and composer, popularised the mambo, stroke.[82]
- Heinz Schmidt, 82, German journalist and editor.[83]
- Tika Lal Taploo, 58, Indian politician, assassinated.[84]
- Valentina, 90, Ukrainian-born American fashion designer, Parkinson's disease.[85]
- Arnold Winkenhofer, 84, American football player and coach (Western Kentucky Hilltoppers).[86]
15
- Harry Cave, 66, New Zealand test cricketer and captain (Central Districts, New Zealand).[87]
- William C. Eddy, 87, American naval officer, engineer and inventor.[88]
- Olga Erteszek, 73, Polish-born American lingerie designer and company owner, breast cancer.[89]
- Jan DeGaetani, 56, American mezzo-soprano, leukemia.[90]
- Michael Klinger, 68, British film producer and distributor.[91]
- Robert Penn Warren, 84, American poet and novelist, prostate cancer.[92]
- John Burr Williams, 88, American economist (intrinsic value).[93]
- Jack Zwirewich, 60, Canadian Olympic rower (1948, 1952).[94]
16
- Bruno Heck, 72, German politician (Minister of Family Affairs and Youth).
- Archie Leitch, 83, Australian rules footballer.[95]
- Georg Schewe, Nazi German officer with the Kriegsmarine.[96]
- Allen Shields, 62, American mathematician, (functional analysis), cancer.[97]
- Anatoly Slivko, 50, Soviet serial killer, executed.
- Steven Stayner, 24, American kidnapping victim, motor cycle collision.[98]
- Anthony Trafford, 57, British politician, Member of Parliament and the House of Lords, lung cancer.[99]
17
- Hugh Quincy Alexander, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1963).[100]
- Leon Culberson, 70, American Major League baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[101]
- Richard Hull, 82, British Army field marshall, Chief of the General Staff, cancer.[102]
- Lionel Malamed, 64, American NBA basketballer (Indianapolis Jets), heart attack.[103]
- José Martínez-Zorilla, 76, Mexican-American football player and Olympic fencer (1936).[104]
- Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, 70, Romanian philosopher, novelist and dramatist, esophageal cancer.
- Jay Stewart, 71, American television and radio announcer (Let's Make a Deal), suicide.[105]
- Salvador Tió, 77, Puerto Rican poet and writer, coined the term "Spanglish".[106]
- Don Vines, 57, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer (Wakefield Trinity, Great Britain).
18
- Alexander Fletcher, 60, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.[107]
- Henry K. Fluck, 77, American army officer.
- Maryat Lee, 66, American playwright and theatre director, heart disease.[108]
- Doug Munro, 72, Australian rules footballer.[109]
- Peter Phipps, 80, New Zealand vice admiral in the Royal New Zealand Navy, car accident.[110]
- Aleksandra Śląska, 63, Polish film actress.[111]
- Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker and actor (Flaming Creatures), AIDS.[112]
19
- Vera Barclay, 95, English scouting pioneer and an author.[113]
- Raymond Holman, 70, Australian cricketer.
- Alma Lavenson, 92, American photographer.[114]
- Philip Sayer, 42, British actor (Xtro), cancer.[115]
- Willie Steele, 66, American long-jumper and Olympic gold medalist (1948), cancer.[116]
20
- Stig Andersson-Tvilling, 61, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1952, 1956).[117]
- Ruth Bailey, 76, American actress.
- Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist and revolutionist.[118]
- Charley Booker, 64, American blues singer and guitarist.[119]
- Richie Ginther, 59, American race car driver, heart attack.[120]
- Roy W. Johnson, 97, American football, basketball and baseball coach.[121]
- David Loxton, 46, Canadian-born British and American documentary producer, pancreatic cancer.[122]
- Tuti Indra Malaon, 49, Indonesian actress and dancer (Wadjah Seorang Laki-laki), internal bleeding.
- Gustl Müller, 85, German Olympic skier (1928).[123]
- James Paster, 44, American serial killer, executed.[124]
- Len Pye, 78, Australian rules footballer.[125]
21
- Bill Barron, 62, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.[126]
- Garrett H. Byrne, 91, American lawyer and politician, district attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
- Murry Dickson, 73, American Major League baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), emphysema.[127]
- Ertem Eğilmez, 60, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter, cancer.[128]
- Corrado Gaipa, 64, Italian actor and voice actor (The Godfather).[129]
- Norman Morley, 90, British Naval Reserve officer.
- Gene Nobles, 76, American radio disc jockey (WLAC).
- Mark Smerchanski, 74, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968-1972).[130]
- Rajani Thiranagama, 35, Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist and feminist, assassinated.
22
- Chuffie Alexander, 87, American Negro League baseball player.[131]
- Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, 60, Nigerian Executive Governor of defunct Nigerian Bendel State).
- Irving Berlin, 101, Russian-born American songwriter ("Puttin' On the Ritz", "White Christmas"), heart attack.[132]
- Bob Calihan, 71, American NBL basketballer and coach (Detroit Eagles).[133]
- John E. Hunt, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967-1975).[134]
- Chunilal Madan, 76, Kenyan Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Haruo Maekawa, 78, Japanese businessman, governor of the Bank of Japan.[135]
- Irving Naxon, 87, American inventor (slow cooker).[136]
23
- Sal Aunese, 21, American college football player (Colorado Buffaloes).[137]
- Austin R. Brunelli, 82, American general in the United States Marine Corps.[138]
- Nick Clausen, 89, Danish Olympic boxer (1920).[139]
- Vail Jewell, 79, American Negro Leagues baseball player.[140]
- Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, 53, Bangladeshi songwriter and poet.[141]
- Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer.[142]
- John T. Koehler, 85, American navy commander, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer.[143]
- William G. Rohrer, 79, American businessman and politician, mayor of Haddon Township, New Jersey.[144]
- Angelo Ross, 78, American film editor and sound engineer (Smokey and the Bandit).[145]
- William Traylor, 58, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.
24
- Chuck Bond, 75, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).[146]
- Charles Hutter, 73, American Olympic swimmer (1936).[147]
- Daniel van der Meulen, 95, Dutch diplomat[148]
- Åke Pleijel, 76, Swedish mathematician (Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function).[149]
- Earl E. Stone, 93, American rear admiral in the United States Navy, director of the Armed Forces Security Agency.[150]
- Shri Yogendra, 91, Indian yoga guru, author and poet.
25
- Pedro Amorim, 69, Brazilian footballer.[151]
- Wally Floody, 71, Canadian fighter pilot and prisoner of war ("Great Escape").[152]
- Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[153]
- Nowell Myres, 86, British archaeologist, Bodley's Librarian.[154]
26
- Pavlos Bakoyannis, 54, Greek politician, assassinated.[155]
- Jimmy Delaney, 75, Scottish international footballer (Manchester United, Celtic, Scotland).[156]
- Kaj Franck, 77, Finnish designer and applied artist.[157]
- Leo Gottlieb, 93, American lawyer (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton).[158]
- Hemant Kumar, 69, Indian music director and playback singer, heart attack.[159]
- William Post Jr., 88, American actor, pulmonary disease.[160]
27
- Sergie Sovoroff, 88, American Aleut educational leader.
28
- José Arribas, 68, Spanish professional footballer and manager (Le Mans).[161]
- Gerardo Castañeda, 63, Guatemalan Olympic sports shooter (1968).[162]
- Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines, cardiac arrest.[163]
- Evan McCaskey, 24, American guitarist (Exodus, Blind Illusion), suicide.
- Paul Schaeffer, 77, American NHL player (Chicago Black Hawks).[164]
- Michael F. Skerry, 80, American politician, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[165]
- Ronald Swain, 86, British RAF officer.[166]
29
- Gussie Busch, 90, American brewing magnate (Anheuser-Busch), owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, pneumonia.[167]
- Mark Dignam, 80, English actor.
- Paul Elzey, 43, American AFL player (Cincinnati Bengals).[168]
- János Farkas, 47, Hungarian footballer (Vasas, Hungary) and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.[169]
- Ermance Rejebian, 83, Armenian-born American book reviewer, lecturer, broadcaster and writer (d. 1989)[170]
- Geoffrey Sumner, 80, British actor.[171]
- Adrian Swan, 59, Australian Olympic figure skater (1952).[172]
- Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 81, French lawyer and far-right politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies, Vichy collaborator.
- Georges Ulmer, 70, Danish-born French composer and actor.[173]
- Gunnar Wiklund, 54, Swedish singer.
30
- Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer and ornithologist.[174]
- Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet.
- Manju Dey, 63, Indian actress and director (Carey Saheber Munshi).[175]
- William M. Fairbank, 72, American physicist (low-temperature physics), heart attack.[176]
- Derelys Perdue, 87, American silent-screen actress and dancer.[177]
- Huỳnh Tấn Phát, 76, Vietnamese architect and politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam.[178]
- Arthur Rook, 68, British Olympic equestrian (1956).[179]
- Artur Schmitt, 78, German Olympic gymnast (1952).[180]
- Ludwig Schuberth, 78, Austrian Olympic handball player (1936).[181]
- Virgil Thomson, 92, American composer.[182]
- John T. Walker, 64 American Roman Catholic leader, Bishop of Washington, heart failure.[183]
- Roy Weir, 78, American MLB player (Boston Bees).[184]
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- Vittorio Scarpati, 35–36, Italian and American artist and cartoonist, AIDS.