The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1989
1
- Blaze Foley, 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet, and artist, shot.
- Elaine de Kooning, 70, American artist.
- Erik Persson (footballer), 79, Swedish footballer and Olympian.
- Nils Thedin, 77, Swedish businessman and civic leader.
2
- Yuri Bogatyryov, 41, Soviet actor.
- Ondrej Nepela, 38, Czechoslovakian figure skater.[1]
- Arnold Nordmeyer, 87, New Zealand politician, Leader of the Opposition.
- Walter M. Scott, 82, American set decorator.
3
- John Cassavetes, 59, Greek-American actor.[2]
- Glenna Collett-Vare, 85, American amateur golfer.
- Joan Grant, 81, English writer of historical novels.
- Frank Hursley, 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley.
- Conny Jepsen, 68, Danish-Swedish badminton player.
- Ebbe Langberg, 55, Danish actor and film director.
- John McCauley, 89, Australian Air Force senior commander, stroke.
- Lionel Newman, 73, American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer, cardiac arrest.[3]
4
- Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 68, American mandolinist, half of comedy duo Homer and Jethro, prostate cancer.
- Thorkild Hansen, 62, Danish novelist.
- Trevor Lucas, 45, Australian folk singer.
- Grandizo Munis, 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician.
- Ferris Webster, 76, American film editor.
5
- André Cheuva, 80, French international footballer.
- Emrys James, 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor.
- Joe Morrison, 51, American NFL footballer and coach, congestive heart failure.[4]
- Joe Raposo, 51, American composer, singer and pianist.
6
- Joseph L. Carrigg, 87, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives.
- André Cayatte, 80, French filmmaker, writer and lawyer.
- Ron Field, 55, American choreographer, dancer and director, brain lesions.[5]
- George F. Habach, 81, American mechanical and consulting engineer, business executive and inventor.
- Undine Smith Moore, 84, American composer and professor of music, stroke.
- King Tubby, 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot.
- Barbara W. Tuchman, 77, American historian and author.[6]
7
- Giuseppe Puca, 33, Italian criminal, murdered after shootout.
- Bill Sewell, 72, American football player and coach.
- William Campbell Steere, 81, American botanist known as an expert on bryophytes.[7]
- Gilbert Simondon, 64, French philosopher.
- John M. Wallace, 95, American banker, philanthropist and politician.
- Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia, 69, German nobleman, soldier and diplomat.
8
- Cyril Luckham, 81, English film, television and theatre actor.
- Begum Khurshid Mirza, 70, Pakistani television and film actress.
- Webster B. Todd, 89, American Chairman of New Jersey Republican State Committee, heart attack.[8]
9
- Hermann Conring, 94, German politician.
- Oliver C. Dawson, 78, American athlete and sports coach.
- Osamu Tezuka, 60, Japanese artist and animator.
10
- Irving Brown, 77, American trade unionist.[9]
- Wayne Hays, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
- Grady Higginbotham, 96, American football and baseball player and coach.
- Panini Ilangakoon, 69, Sri Lankan politician.
- Dan Kelly, 52, Canadian-American sportscaster, lung cancer.[10]
- Herbert Ryman, 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer, cancer.
11
- Charles L. Bolte, 93, United States Army general, stroke.[11]
- T. E. B. Clarke, 81, British screenwriter.[12]
- Leon Festinger, 69, American social psychologist.[13]
- Roland Gross, 80, American film editor and television editor.
- George O'Hanlon, 76, American actor, comedian and writer, stroke.
- Cecil C. Steiner, 92, American dentist.
- Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi.
12
- Thomas Bernhard, 58, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet, heart attack.[14]
- Maurice Cann, 77, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
- Attilio Dottesio, 79, Italian film character actor and singer.
- Pat Finucane, 39, Irish lawyer.
- Bill Speer, 46, Canadian professional ice hockey player, snowmobile accident.
13
- Rosa Castillo, 78, Mexican sculptor, respiratory failure.
- Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, 79.
- Dud Harris, 85, American footballer.
- Hans Hellmut Kirst, 74, German novelist.
- Dave Tarras, appr. 94, Ukrainian-American clarinetist and bandleader, pneumonia.[15]
- Zhou Tongqing, 81, Chinese optical physicist.
14
- James Bond, 89, American ornithologist.
- Vincent Crane, 45, British musician.
- Duncan Gregg, 78, American rower and Olympic gold medalist.
- Hilario, 83, Spanish international footballer.
15
- Hüseyin Akbaş, 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist.
- Sita Devi, Maharani of Baroda, 71, the \"Indian Wallis Simpson\".
- Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.
- Aleksandr Travin, 51, Russian basketballer.
- Sabo Bakin Zuwo, 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State.
16
- Andy Black, 72, Scottish international footballer.
- Ida Ehre, 88, Austrian-German actor, theatre director and manager, heart attack.[16]
17
- Ian Fraser, 78, British judge.
- R. B. Frost, 81, American football, basketball and baseball coach.
- Lefty Gomez, 80, American Major League baseball player.[17]
- Guy Laroche, 67, French fashion designer.[18]
- Marguerite Roberts, 83, American screenwriter, arteriosclerosis.
- Hanne Sobek, 88, German international footballer.
- Mo Yingfeng, 51, Chinese novelist.
18
- John Bailey, 76, British screen and TV actor.
- Mildred Burke, 73, American professional wrestler, women's world champion, stroke.
- Kathleen Hite, 71, American writer for radio and television.
19
- Jack Bassett, 83, Welsh international rugby union player.
- Eric F. Goldman, 72, American historian.[19]
- Dr Rosa Slade Gragg, 84, American activist and politician, U.S. presidential advisor.[20]
- Alec Merrison, 64, British physicist.
20
- Stuart Black, 81, New Zealand sprinter and Olympian.
- Zhang Dayu, 83, Chinese chemist.
- Erika Köth, 63, German operatic soprano.
- Betty Mars, 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping.
- Manuel Rosas, 76, Mexican international footballer.
21
- Harry Clarke, 83, Australian Rules footballer.
- Robert Dorning, 75, English musician, vocalist, ballet dancer and actor, diabetes.
- Sándor Márai, 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist.
- Otar Taktakishvili, 64, Georgian composer, teacher and conductor.
- Alex Thépot, 82, French international footballer and Olympian.
- Lois Waring, 58, American figure skater.
22
- Raymond Gower, 72, British member of Parliament.
- Nadezhda Kosheverova, 86, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
- Zhu Liangcai, 88, general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
- Abel Wolman, 96, American engineer and educator.[21]
- Joan Woodbury, 73, American actress.[22]
23
- Aleks Çaçi, 72, Albanian author.
- Fred Grimwade, 55, Australian politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council.
- Paul Richey, 72, English flying ace during the Second World War.
- Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, 82, Tibetan nobleman and statesman, Finance Minister of Tibet, stomach cancer.[23]
- Roy Tyner, 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot.
24
- Sparky Adams, 94, American Major League baseballer.
- Norris Cotton, 88, American politician, US senator.[24]
- Joe Harvey, 70, English footballer and manager.
- Ben Kish, 71, American NFL footballer.
- Margo Lion, 89, Ottoman-French singer and actress.
- Claude McGrath, 84, American college basketball coach.
- Mallica Reynolds, 78, Jamaican artist and religious leader.
25
- Angna Enters, 91, American dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright.[25]
- Robert Foulk, 80, American television and film actor.
26
- Roy Eldridge, 78, American jazz trumpeter.[26]
- Joseph Fenton, appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- Alexander Golling, 83, German actor, member of the Nazi Party.
- Reunald Jones, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
- Mouloud Mammeri, 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident.
- Éloi Meulenberg, 76, Belgian professional road bicycle racer.
27
- Paul Oswald Ahnert, 91, German astronomer.
- Bayani Casimiro, 70, Filipino dancer.
- Shiba P. Chatterjee, 86, Indian Professor of Geography.
- Mauricio Garcés, 62, Mexican actor and comedian.
- Kim Hyun-chul, 87, Korean independence activist and politician, Prime Minister of South Korea.
- Göran Larsson, 56, Swedish swimmer.
- Konrad Lorenz, 85, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[27]
- Bas Paauwe, 77, Dutch international footballer.
- Joe Silver, 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack.[28]
- Boris Skossyreff, 92, Belarusian adventurer, swindler and pretender, tried to seize the monarchy of Andorra.
28
- Halil Bıçakçı, 62, Turkish football manager.
- Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, 78, Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator and writer.
- Hermann Burger, 46, Swiss poet, novelist and essayist, suicide.
- Douglas Kendrew, 79, British Army general, international rugby union player, Governor of Western Australia.
- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, 100, Indian yoga teacher.
- Karl Anderson, 88, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
Unknown date
- John J. Nash, Irish member of Seanad Éireann.
- Dudley Wilkins, 74, American triple jumper and Olympian.
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