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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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. June 1989 1 Dharmasena Attygalle , 64, Sri Lankan politician.Emery Hawkins , 77, American animator.Aurelio Lampredi , 71, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer.Alexis Lichine , 75, Russian wine writer and entrepreneur.[1] Edward J. McShane , 85, American mathematician, congestive heart failure.Charles Vanden Wouwer , 72, English-Belgian international footballer.2 Guido Agosti , 87, Italian pianist and piano teacher.Smith Barrier , 72, American sports journalist.Ted à Beckett , 81, Australian test cricketer.Dick Mayer , 64, American professional golfer.Frederic Prokosch , 83, American writer.[2] Takeo Watanabe , 56, Japanese musician and composer.3 4 5 6 Richard P. Graves , 82, American director of the League of California Cities.Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn , 83, British economist.Michael O'Farrell , 40, American vice-president of Oakland Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, murdered.Ernest John Primeau , 79, American Roman Catholic bishop.Laxman Singh , 81, Indian last ruling Maharawal (Maharaja) of the state of Dungarpur.7 Donn Beach , 82, American adventurer, businessman and World War II veteran, liver cancer.[5] Jorge Córdova , 76, Chilean international footballer.Jim Cristy , 76, American swimmer and Olympic medalist, financial manager for the Updike Company.William McLean Hamilton , 70, Canadian politician.Chico Landi , 81, Brazilian Formula One racing driver.Nara Leão , 47, Brazilian singer, brain tumour.[6] Paulo Leminski , 74, Brazilian writer, poet and journalist, liver cirrhosis.George Roughton , 79, English footballer.Jane Weiller , 77, American golfer.8 9 George Beadle , 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[10] Rashid Behbudov , 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor.[11] Norman Brearley , 98, Australian commercial and military pilot, pioneer of Australian airline industry.James Horstead , 91, Anglican bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa.Vladimir Kasatonov , 78, Soviet military leader and fleet admiral.Huang Yan , 76, Chinese politician.José López Rega , 72, Argentine politician, Minister of Social Welfare, diabetes.[12] [13] Wolfdietrich Schnurre , 68, German writer, heart failure.Piotr Vasiliev , 80, Soviet realist painter.10 James Greenway , 86, American ornithologist.Martin Kottler , 79, American NFL footballer.Juan Bustillo Oro , 85, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.Richard Quine , 68, American actor, director and singer, suicide by shooting.[14] Suleyman Rustam , 83, Soviet poet, playwright and translator.Joe Stripp , 86, American Major League baseballer.11 12 13 Fran Allison , 81, American television and radio personality, myelodysplasia.[16] William Grasso , Italian-American mobster, murdered.Ray Sherry , 64, Australian politician, member of the Australian Parliament.Howard Simons , 60, American editor of Washington Post at time of the Watergate scandal, pancreatic cancer.[17] 14 Dame Zara Bate , 80, Australian fashion entrepreneur, wife of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.Pete de Freitas , 27, English musician and producer, motorcycle accident.Wei Guoqing , 75, Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar.Heber Austin Ladner , 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Mississippi, heart disease.Joseph Malula , 71, Congolese archbishop and cardinal.[18] Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss , 87, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.15 Maurice Bellemare , 77, Canadian politician, diabetes.Roberto Camardiel , 71, Spanish theatre director and actor, bone disease.Victor French , 54, American actor and director, lung cancer.[19] Judy Johnson , 89, American Negro League baseballer.[20] Ray McAnally , 63, Irish actor, heart attack.[21] Luis Ricceri , 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest.16 17 18 Ennio Balbo , 67, Italian film, television and voice actor.Bobby Cross , 57, American NFL footballer.George C. Pimentel , 67, American chemist and researcher, intestinal cancer.[23] I. F. Stone , 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack.[24] 19 20 Dona Drake , 74, American singer, dancer and film actress, pneumonia.21 Ron Bailey , 75, Australian international rugby league footballer.Lee Calhoun , 56, American hurdler, dual Olympic gold medalist.[25] Aleksandr Safronov , 36, Soviet speed skater and Olympian.Edmond Sollberger , 68, Turkish-Swiss–British museum curator, scholar of the Sumerian language.22 Anton Dermota , 79, Slovene lyric tenor.[26] William Fletcher-Vane , 80, British politician, member of the House of Lords.Robert Körner , 64, Austrian international footballer.Henri Sauguet , 88, French composer.[27] Isaac Starr , 94, American physician, heart disease specialist and clinical epidemiologist.[28] 23 Michel Aflaq , 79, Syrian philosopher and Arab nationalist, complications from heart surgery.[29] Werner Best , 85, German Nazi Party leader, organiser of the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads.[30] Timothy Manning , 79, Irish-American Roman Catholic archbishop.[31] 24 25 Idris Cox , 89, Welsh communist activist and newspaper editor.M. A. Daniel , 35, Sri Lankan politician, murdered.26 27 Sir Alfred Ayer , 78, English philosopher.[34] Jack Buetel , 73, American film and television actor.[35] Dorothy Bullitt , 97, American businesswoman and philanthropist.Michele Lupo , 56, Italian film director.[36] Gregory McMahon , 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.Stevan Vilotić , 63, Yugoslav footballer and manager.28 29 30 References