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
1
- José Cândido de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian writer.
- Don Heffner, 78, American Major League baseballer.[1]
- John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-Canadian theatre director, AIDS-related illness.[2]
- John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia.[3]
2
- Friedl Behn-Grund, 82, German cinematographer.
- Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet.
3
- Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer, complications from pancreatic cancer.
- Antonia Brico, 87, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist.[4]
- Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist.[5]
4
- Maurice Colbourne, 49, English stage and television actor, heart attack.
- Wayne LaMaster, 82, American Major League baseballer.
- Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist.
- 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.[6]
5
- John Kinard, 52, American social activist, pastor and museum director, myelofibrosis.[7]
- Max Macon, 73, American Major League baseballer.
- Charles Richard Mulrooney, 83, American Roman Catholic bishop.
- Stacey Toran, 27, American NFL footballer, car accident.
6
- Beattie Casely-Hayford, 67, Ghanaian engineer, co-founder of Ghana National Dance Ensemble.
- Don Clark, 65, American footballer, heart attack.
- Nat Levine, 90, American film producer.
7
- Mickey Leland, 44, American politician, anti-poverty activist, member of U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.
- Robert Stevens, 68, American television and movie director and producer, cardiac arrest.
- Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director.
8
- Irving Cottler, 71, American percussionist, heart attack.
- Robert Kaske, 68, American professor of medieval literature, brain tumour.[8]
- Enrico Lorenzetti, 78, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
- Brian Naylor, 66, British racing driver.
- Bobby Oxspring, 70, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
- George Papp, 73, American comics artist.
9
- Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor.
- Antonino Pietro Gullotti, 67, Italian politician.
- Kathleen Maguire, 63, American actress, cancer of the esophagus.[9]
- Wayne Sheley, 73, Canadian footballer.
10
- H. Montgomery Hyde, 81, Irish barrister, politician, author and biographer.
- George Ignatieff, 75, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations.
- Pierre Matisse, 89, French-born American art dealer.[10]
- Alberto Sols, 72, Spanish biochemist.
11
- Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, 69–72, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan.
- Goldup Davies, 75, British swimmer.
- Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- John Meillon, 55, Australian actor, cirrhosis.
- Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist.
12
- Fred Dawes, 78, English footballer.
- Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress.
- Aimo Koivunen, 71, Finnish soldier.
- Samuel Okwaraji, 25, Nigerian international footballer, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, eugenicist, prostate cancer.[11]
- Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress.
13
- Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer.
- Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor.
- Tim Richmond, 34, American race car driver, complications from AIDS.[12]
- Larkin I. Smith, 45, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.
- Carlos Yates, 27, American basketballer, shot.
14
- Robert Bernard Anderson, 79, American politician, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, throat cancer.[13]
- Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer, suicide by shooting.
- Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City.
15
- Wolfram Eberhard, 80, German-born Turkish and American professor of Sociology.
- Minoru Genda, 84, Japanese Navy flight officer, Japanese Air Self Defence Force general, and politician.[14]
- Elvy Kalep, 90, Estonian aviator, country's first female pilot.
- Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician.
- Dorothea Leighton, 80, American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology.
- Earl B. Ruth, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, 92, Greek Army Lieutenant General who served in World Wars I and II.
16
- Jean-Hilaire Aubame, 76, Gabonese politician, Foreign Minister of Gabon.
- Amanda Blake, 60, American actress, AIDS-related pneumonia.[15]
- Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist.
- Bill Sayer, 55, English international rugby league footballer.
- Erasmo Vera, 66, Chilean footballer.
17
- Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer and television presenter.
- Fred Frankhouse, 85, American Major League baseballer.
- Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
- Lin Tie, 84, Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China.
18
- Robert Buckner, 83, American film screenwriter, producer and short story writer.
- Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated.
- Matt Gordy, 79, American pole vaulter.
- Yūji Koseki, 80, Japanese song and film score composer.
- Imre Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic gold medalist.
- Bert Oosterbosch, 32, Dutch racing cyclist, cardiac arrest.
- Chrissie White, 94, British silent-screen actress.
19
- Géza Képes, 80, Hungarian poet, translator and polyglot.
- Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense and the Interior.
- Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer, heart attack.
- Joseph A. Pechman, 71, American economist and taxation scholar.[16]
20
- George Adamson, 83, British wildlife conservationist in Kenya, murdered.
- H. B. Halicki, 48, American director, writer, stunt driver, actor and filmmaker, accident while filming.
- Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer.
- Chuck Tollefson, 72, American NFL footballer.
21
- William F. Bolger, 66, U.S. Postmaster General.[17]
- William Danielsen, 73, Norwegian footballer.
- Raul Seixas, 44, Brazilian rock singer, songwriter and producer, cardiac arrest.
- Phyllis Terrell, 91, American suffragist and civil rights activist.
- Ted Wilks, 73, American Major League baseballer.
22
- George Flahiff, 83, Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop.
- Robert Grondelaers, 56, Belgian road cyclist and Olympic medalist.
- Charles Hill, 85, British physician and medical spokesman, radio speaker and member of Parliament.
- Huey P. Newton, 47, African-American political activist, founder of Black Panther party, probable murderer, shot.
- Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician.
- Diana Vreeland, 85, American fashion columnist and editor, heart attack.[18]
23
- Erik Almgren, 81, Swedish footballer and manager.
- R. D. Laing, 61, Scottish psychiatrist, heart attack.[19]
24
- Jacques Godechot, 82, French historian of the French Revolution.
- Fermín Lecea, 83, Spanish-Argentine footballer.
- Jimmy Littlejohn, 79, Scottish footballer and manager.
- Feliks Topolski, 82, Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman.[20]
25
- Jim Brideweser, 62, American Major League baseballer.
- Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor.
- Yan Frenkel, 68, Soviet Ukrainian composer and performer.
- Frank Henry, 79, American equestrian and Olympic gold medalist.
- Herbert Loper, 92, United States Army Major General in World War II, cardiac arrest.
- Roman Palester, 81, Polish composer of classical music.
- Jean-Louis Verdier, 54, French mathematician.
- Bronwen Wallace, 44, Canadian poet and short story writer, cancer.
26
- Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet and writer.
- Juanita Brooks, 91, American historian and author, Alzheimer's disease.
- Patrick Connor, 83, Irish politician.
- Irving Stone, 86, American writer.[21]
27
- Elmer Ellis, 88, American educator and president of the University of Missouri.
- Luiz Luz, 79, Brazilian international footballer.
- Gloria Milland, 48, Italian actress.
- Burhan Shahidi, 94, Chinese politician.
- Bill Shirley, 68, American actor and tenor baritone, lung cancer.
28
- Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist.[22]
- Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS-related liver disease.
- John Steptoe, 38, American author and illustrator for children’s books, AIDS.[23]
- Fred Waters, 62, American Major League baseballer.
29
- Pua Kealoha, 86, Hawaiian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist for the U.S.A.
- Lorenzo Natali, 66, Italian politician.[24]
- Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 66, Italian-Argentinian fashion designer based in the U.S.A., lung cancer.
- Sir Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist, Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack.[25]
30
- Buddy Burbage, 82, American Negro League baseballer.
- Joe Collins, 66, American Major League baseballer.[26]
- Joe de Santis, 80, American radio, television, movie and theatrical actor and sculptor, pulmonary disease.
- Geneviève Morel, 73, French stage and film actress.
- Roland Renne, 83, American agricultural economics professor, president of Montana State College.
- Dorothy Schiff, 86, American businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post.[27]
31
- Michele Cascella, 96, Italian artist.
- Moe Dalitz, 89, American gangster, businessman, casino owner and philanthropist, congestive heart failure.
- Mary Gunn, 90, South African librarian and biographer.
- Claire Luce, 85, American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer.[28]
- Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major League baseballer.
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