The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1989
1
- William Ching, 75, American actor, congestive heart failure.
- Eric Holland, 68, New Zealand politician, member of the New Zealand Parliament.
- Sumant Moolgaokar, 82, Indian industrialist.
- António Morais, 54, Portuguese footballer and manager, car crash.
- Viktor Nekipelov, 60, Soviet Russian poet and writer.
- Louise Varèse, 98, American writer, editor and translator of French literature.
2
- Brendan Crinion, 65, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
- Andrei Gromyko, 79, Soviet politician and diplomat, Chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, vascular problem.[1]
- Hasan Esat Işık, 72–73, Turkish diplomat and politician.
- Jean Leguay, 79, French Nazi, responsible for rounding up Jews for concentration camps, cancer.
- Jean Painlevé, 86, French photographer and filmmaker.
- Franklin J. Schaffner, 69, Japanese-born American film, television and stage director, lung cancer.[2]
- Wilfrid Sellars, 77, American philosopher.[3]
- Ben Wright, 74, English radio, film and television actor, complications from heart surgery.
3
- Jim Backus, 76, American actor, best known as Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island, pneumonia.[4]
- Peter Fox, 68, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
4
- Jack Haig, English actor, 76, stomach cancer.
- Win Maung, 73, President of the Union of Burma.
- Leyla Mammadbeyova, 79, Azerbaijani aviator.
- Vic Perrin, 73, American radio, film and television actor, cancer.[5]
5
- Bill Daddio, 73, American NFL football player, coach and scout, heart attack.
- Ernesto Halffter, 84, Spanish composer and conductor.
- Sirarpie Der Nersessian, 92, Armenian art historian.
- Berthold Wolpe, 83, German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator.
6
- Jean Bouise, 60, French actor.
- C. A. Dharmapala, 81, Sri Lankan politician.
- János Kádár, 77, Hungarian politician, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, cancer.
- John Maguire, 84, American Roman Catholic clergyman.
- William F. Tompkins, 76, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly, heart attack.
7
- Moshe Kol, 78, Israeli politician.
8
- August Haußleiter, 84, German politician and journalist.
9
- Andrex, 82, French film actor.
- Piet Lieftinck, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives and Senate.
10
- Mel Blanc, 81, American voice actor and radio personality, complications of emphysema and obstructive pulmonary disease.[6]
- Jean-Michel Charlier, 64, Belgian comics writer.
- Roger Richebé, 91, French film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Tommy Trinder, 80, English stage, screen and radio comedian.
11
- Irv Comp, 70, American NFL footballer.
- Laurence Curtis, 83, American attorney and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.[7]
- Horia Macellariu, 95, Romanian admiral, Royal Romanian Navy commander in Second World War.
- Vic Maile, 55–56, British record producer, cancer.
- Laurence Olivier, 82, English actor and director, renal failure.[8]
- Richard Travis, 76, American actor in films and television.
12
- Sidney Hook, 86, American philosopher.[9]
- Carlos Puebla, 71, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer.
- Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, 92, Crown Prince of Finland.
13
- A. Amirthalingam, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Leader of the Opposition, assassinated.
- Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, 58, Iranian Kurdish politician, assassinated.
- Davud Monshizadeh, 74, Iranian supporter of Nazism.
- Arnaldo Ochoa, 58–59, Cuban general, executed.
- Pedro Orata, 90, Filipino educator.
- V. Yogeswaran, 55, Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and member of Parliament, assassinated.
14
- Arnold Poepke, 87, German politician.
15
- Josef Bauer, 74, German politician.
- Will Bradley, 77, American trombonist and bandleader.[10]
- Laurie Cunningham, 33, English international footballer, car crash.
- Nesuhi Ertegun, 71, Turkish-born American record producer, complications of cancer surgery.[11]
- Artur Sandauer, 75, Polish literary critic, essayist and professor.
- Jack Scholes, 71, Australian-born New Zealand sailor.
- Teiichi Suzuki, 100, Lieutenant General in Imperial Japanese Army, minister of state, heart failure.[12]
- William F. Temple, 75, British science fiction writer.
16
- John N. Dempsey, 74, Irish-born American politician, Governor of Connecticut, lung cancer.[13]
- Nicolás Guillén, 87, Cuban poet, journalist, political activist and writer, Parkinson's disease.
- Herbert von Karajan, 81, Austrian conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, heart attack.
- Jack Kasley, 73, American swimmer and Olympian.
- George Rich, 84, American football player and coach.
- Shmuel Rodensky, 86, Russian-born Israeli actor of stage, film and television, heart attack.
- Allan Shaw, 62, English Anglican priest.
17
- Dudley Brooks, 75, American jazz pianist, arranger and composer.
- Paul C, 24, American hip hop pioneer, producer, engineer and mixer, murdered.
- Robert Horton Cameron, 81, American mathematician.
- Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, 89, French wife of Samuel Beckett.
- Paul Lemerle, 86, French founding president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies.
- Jeff Moores, 83, Australian rugby league footballer.
- Mary Parke, 81, British marine botanist and Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry, 100, Indian sanskrit scholar, writer and spiritual teacher.
18
- Donnie Moore, 35, American Major League baseballer, gun suicide.
- Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, American actress, murdered.
19
- J. M. Cohen, 86, British translator of European literature into English.
- Xaquín Lorenzo Fernández, 82, Spanish educator.
- Jay Ramsdell, 25, American commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, plane crash.
- Stan Ramsay, 84, English footballer and manager.
- Kazimierz Sabbat, 76, Prime Minister and President of the Polish government in exile.
- Carl-Heinz Schroth, 87, German actor and film director.
- John Wyhonic, 69, American NFL footballer.
20
- Forrest H. Anderson, 76, American politician, Governor and Attorney General of Montana, self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Valentine Bargmann, 81, German-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist.[14]
- Jaime Bartrolí, 71, Spanish tennis player and coach.
- José Augusto Brandão, 78, Brazilian international footballer.
- Juan Carlos Altavista, 60, Argentine actor and comedian, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
- Lauro Corona, 32, Brazilian actor.
- Karen DeWolf, 85, American screenwriter and novelist.
- Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, 79, leader of French Resistance network \"Alliance\", under code name \"Hérisson\".
- Dženan Salković, 44, Bosnian and Yugoslav singer and songwriter, accident while piloting a glider.
- Erwin Sietas, 78, German swimmer and Olympic medalist.
- Mary Treen, 82, American film and television actress, cancer.[15]
- Yannis Tsarouchis, 79, Greek modernist painter and set designer.
- Harry Worth, 71, English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist, spinal cancer.[16]
21
- Donald Brittain, 61, Canadian film director and producer.
- James M. Collins, 73, American businessman and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[17]
- Danilo Lokar, 97, Slovene physician and expressionist writer.
- William T. Whisner Jr., 65, American pilot in U.S. Air Force, complications from wasp sting.[18]
22
- Janet Lee Bouvier, 81, American mother of Jacqueline Kennedy, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- A. Thomas Doyle, 71, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Martti Talvela, 54, Finnish operatic bass, heart attack.[19]
- Frank Thompson, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, esophageal cancer.
23
- Donald Barthelme, 58, American short story writer and novelist, throat cancer.[20]
- Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, 68, daughter of Emperor Charles I of Austria.
- Hank Greenspun, 79, American publisher of Las Vegas Sun newspaper.[21]
- Thevis Guruge, Sri Lankan broadcaster with Radio Ceylon, murdered.
- Claude Harmon, 73, American professional golfer, heart failure.[22]
- Daniel Rhodes, 78, American artist, heart attack[23]
- Alexander Weygers, 87, Dutch-American sculptor, painter, mechanical and aerospace engineer, and author.
24
- Marco Acerbi, 40, Italian hurdler and Olympian.
- Walter Dick, 83, American international footballer.
- Charlie Gallagher, 51, Irish Gaelic footballer, drowned.
- Ernie \"Sunshine Sammy\" Morrison, 76, American actor, comedian and dancer, cancer.
- Eleanor Raymond, 102, American architect.
25
- Steve Rubell, 45, American entrepreneur, owner of New York City disco Studio 54, hepatitis complicated by AIDS.[24]
26
- Derek Ball, British sound engineer and Academy Award winner.
27
- Eugénie Henderson, 74, British linguist and academic.
- Warren Low, 83, American film editor.
- Walter Scott, 89, Australian rules footballer.
- Dolf Sternberger, 81, German philosopher and political scientist.
28
- B. V. Bowden, 79, English scientist.
- Jeff Richards, 64, American actor, acute respiratory failure.
- Fu Zhong, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
29
- Osvaldo Brandão, 72, Brazilian footballer and coach.
- Joe Littlejohn, 81, American stock car racing driver, heart attack.
- Rudy Zamora, 79, Mexican-American animator.
30
- Lily Broberg, 65, Danish stage and film actress.
- Muhammad Dilawar Khanji, 71, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh, lung cancer.
- Lane Frost, 25, American professional rodeo cowboy, killed by bull.
- Amadeo Labarta, 84, Spanish footballer and Olympian.
31
- Premakeerthi de Alwis, 42, Sri Lankan radio and television broadcaster and lyricist, murdered.
- Eddie Gannon, 78, Irish footballer.
- Michael Harrington, 61, American author, political activist and radio commentator, esophageal cancer.[25]
- Bull Moose Jackson, 70, American rhythm-and-blues singer and saxophonist, lung cancer.
- Geronima Pecson, 92, Filipina educator and suffragette, first woman senator of the Philippines.
- George Augustus Vaughn Jr., 92, American fighter ace in World War I, brain tumour.
- Zhou Yang, 80, Chinese literary theorist, translator and Marxist.
Unknown date
- Hui Yuyu, 79–80, Chinese politician.
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