Deaths in January 1989

1

• G. Sankara Pillai, 58, Indian playwright, literary critic and director.^[1]
• Anthony Pini, 86, Argentinian-Scottish cellist.^[2]
• Marcel Tomazover, 73, French footballer and coach.^[3]

2

• Safdar Hashmi, 34, Indian communist playwright and director, murdered.^[4]

3

• Eddie Heywood, 73, American jazz pianist and composer.^[5]
• Jim Lawson, 86, American NFL footballer.^[6]
• Lina Prokofiev, 91, Spanish singer and wife of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.^[7]
• Sergei Sobolev, 80, Soviet mathematician.^[8]
• Robert Thomas, 61, French writer, actor and film director.^[9]
• Jean Willes, 65, American film and television actress, liver cancer.^[10]

4

• Mike Micka, 67, American NFL footballer.^[11]

5

• Philip Herschkowitz, 82, Romanian-composer and music theorist.^[12]
• Nell O'Day, 79, American equestrian and B-movie actress, heart attack.^[13]
• Alexander Sargent, 93, English Anglican clergyman.

6

• Jim Hurtubise, 56, American race car driver.^[14]
• Sir Edmund Leach, 78, British social anthropologist.^[15]
• Satwant Singh, 26–27, Indian co-assassin of Indira Gandhi, execution by hanging.^[16]

7

• Frank Adams, 58, British mathematician, Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge.^[17]
• Hirohito, 87, longest reigning Emperor of Japan, cancer.^[18]
• William Joseph McDonald, 84, Irish-American Roman Catholic bishop, heart attack.^[19]
• Aslam Pahalwan, 61, Pakistani professional wrestler and world heavyweight champion.^[20]

8

• Torsten Johansson, 83, Swedish international footballer and Olympian.
• Johnny Jordaan, 64, Dutch singer.^[21]
• Kenneth McMillan, 56, American actor.

9

• Marshall H. Stone, 85, American mathematician, stroke.
• Bill Terry, 90, American Major League baseballer.^[22]

10

• Chris Avram, 57, Romanian-Italian film actor.
• William Joseph Browne, 91, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician.
• Karl Geiringer, 89, Austrian-American musicologist and biographer of composers, complications from a fall.^[23]
• Valentin Glushko, 80, Soviet engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program.
• Herbert Morrison, 83, American radio journalist, voice of the Hindenburg disaster.
• Donald Voorhees, 85, American composer and conductor, pneumonia.^[24]
• Colin Winchester, 55, assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, assassinated.

11

• George Abell, 84, English civil servant and cricketer.
• Michael Forrestal, 61, American National Security Advisor of President John F. Kennedy, aneurysm.^[25]
• Henning Karmark, 81, Danish film producer.
• Ray Moore, 47, British broadcaster, throat cancer.
• José Bustamante y Rivero, 94, Peruvian politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer, President of Peru.

12

• Paula Ackerman, 95, American Jewish leader.
• Adil Candemir, 71–72, Turkish wrestler and Olympic medalist.
• Ray Morehart, 89, American Major League baseballer.
• Satyam, 55–56, Indian composer.
• Charles J. Turck, 98, American lawyer and academic administrator, heart attack.

13

• Sterling Allen Brown, 87, American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic.
• Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 89, British feminist and Conservative Party politician.
• Chuck Hornbostel, 77, American middle-distance runner and dual Olympian.
• Hiram E. McCallum, 89, Canadian politician, mayor of Toronto.
• John Moorman, 83, English bishop.
• José María Peña, 93, Spanish international footballer and manager.
• Joe Spinell, 52, American actor.

14

• Kenneth Fogarty, 65–66, Canadian politician, Mayor of Ottawa, heart failure.
• Leo Warren Jenkins, 75, American president and chancellor of East Carolina University.
• Richard Warner, 77, English actor.
• Nguyễn Văn Xuân, 96, Vietnamese politician, prime minister of Vietnam.

15

• Helen Logan, 82, American screenwriter.
• Günter Reich, 67, German baritone.
• Wilf Slack, 34, English international cricketer.

16

• Mick Baxter, 32, English footballer, cancer.
• Prem Nazir, 62, Indian actor.
• Trey Wilson, 40, American actor.^[26]

17

• Gordon Allott, 82, American politician, U.S. Senator.^[27]
• Brian Allsop, 53, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Wajid Ali Khan Burki, 88, Pakistani ophthalmologist, lung cancer.
• Michael Francke, 42, American judge, director of New Mexico and Oregon Corrections Departments, murdered.
• Sam Longson, 88, British businessman.
• Óscar Vargas Prieto, 71, Peruvian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Peru.
• Alfredo Zitarrosa, 52, Uruguayan singer-songwriter, poet and journalist.

18

• Nils Axelsson, 83, Swedish international footballer.
• Bruce Chatwin, 48, British travel writer, novelist and journalist.^[28]
• Marshall Esteppe, 79, American wrestler.
• John D. Hickerson, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines and Finland, cancer.^[29]
• Dick Rondeau, 67, American ice hockey player.

19

• Devi Dja, 74, Indonesian-American dancer, actress and singer.
• James S. Moose Jr., 85, American diplomat, ambassador to several countries.
• Norma Varden, 90, English-American actress.
• Octavio Vial, 70, Mexican football manager and World Cup coach.

20

• Nuri Asan, 49, Turkish footballer and manager.
• Józef Cyrankiewicz, 77, Polish communist politician, prime minister and president of Poland.
• Tine Debeljak, 85, Yugoslav-Argentinian literary critic, translator, editor and poet.
• John Harding, 92, British Army Field Marshall.
• Alamgir Kabir, 50, Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist, drowned.
• Dolf van Kol, 86, Dutch international footballer and Olympian.
• Beatrice Lillie, 94, Canadian-British actress, singer and comedic performer.^[30]
• Whistlin' Alex Moore, 89, American blues pianist and singer, heart attack.
• Halsey Stevens, 80, American music professor, biographer and composer.

21

• John F. Davidson, 80, American navy rear admiral.
• Morley Drury, 85, Canadian-American footballer.^[31]
• Keith English, 61, Canadian Football League player.
• Carl Furillo, 66, American Major League baseballer, leukemia.^[32]
• Leslie Halliwell, 59, British film critic, esophageal cancer.^[33]
• Billy Tipton, 74, American jazz musician and bandleader.

22

• Sydney Goldstein, 85, British mathematician.^[34]
• Farquhar Oliver, 84, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition.
• Ugo Pignotti, 90, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist.^[35]
• Willie Wells, 82, American Negro League baseballer, congestive heart failure.^[36]
• Sándor Weöres, 75, Hungarian poet and author.

23

• George Case, 73, American Major League baseballer, emphysema.
• Salvador Dalí, 84, Spanish artist.
• M. Govindan, 69, Indian writer and cultural activist.
• Gilbert L. Voss, 70–71, American conservationist and oceanographer.^[37]

24

• Ted Bundy, 42, American serial killer, executed by electric chair.
• Dante Emiliozzi, 73, Argentine racing driver.
• Roberto Figueroa, 84, Uruguayan international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.
• Merwin Graham, 85, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
• George Knudson, 51, Canadian professional golfer, cancer.
• Michael Scott, 83, Irish architect.
• Les Spann, 56, American jazz guitarist and flautist.
• Theodore B. Werner, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

25

• David Basnett, 64, British trade union leader.
• Alvin Robinson, 51, American rhythm and blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

26

• Morton DaCosta, 74, American theatre and film director, film producer, writer and actor, heart failure.
• Donnie Elbert, 52, American soul singer and songwriter, stroke.
• William Forrest, 86, American theatre, film and television actor, heart failure.
• George Schroth, 89, American water polo player and Olympic medalist.

27

• Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, 62, Irish writer.
• David Buck, 52, English actor, cancer.
• Bob Haymes, 65, American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter.
• Robert A. Henle, 65–66, American electrical engineer.^[38]
• Willibald Kreß, 82, German international footballer.
• Sir Thomas Sopwith, 101, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman.^[39]

28

• Clarence \"Skip\" Graham, 81, American librarian, president of American Library Association.
• Choekyi Gyaltsen, Panchen Lama, 50, Tibetan Buddhist leader, heart attack.
• Halina Konopacka, 88, Polish athlete.
• Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia, 80, Indian scholar and archaeologist.
• Yoshimaro Yamashina, 88, Japanese ornithologist.

29

• Federico Cantú Garza, 81, Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor.

30

• Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, 52, heir of the Spanish monarchy in the event of restoration.
• Jack George, 60, American NBA basketballer
• Friedrich Solmsen, 84, German-American philologist and professor of classical studies.^[40]

31

• Yasushi Akutagawa, 63, Japanese composer and conductor.
• Jack Douglas, 80, American comedy writer.^[41]
• Arthur Reginald Evans, 83, Australian rescuer of JFK.
• Fernando Gonçalves Namora, 69, Portuguese writer and medical doctor.^[42]
• William Stephenson, 92, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster.^[43]

Unknown date

• Leo Holzer, 86–87, Austrian-Czech firefighter and Holocaust survivor.
• Oliver Sipple, 47, American who prevented assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford.