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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.
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February 1989
1
- Hubert Ausböck, 81, German Olympic boxer (1928).
- Everett Bacon, 98, American college football player (Wesleyan Cardinals).
- Lillian Boyer, 88, American wing walker.[1]
- James Drake, 81, British civil engineer, pioneer of the national motorway network.[2]
- Blaze Foley, 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet and artist, shot.[3]
- Elaine de Kooning, 70, American artist.[4]
- Grace Hayes, 93, American actress, singer, vaudeville entertainer and nightclub owner.[5]
- J.C. Hoel, 84, American motorcycle racer, and founder of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.[6]
- Kenneth Morris, 71, American composer of gospel music.[7]
- Erik Persson, 79, Swedish international footballer and Olympian (1936).
- John Tootoosis, 89, Canadian First Nations leader.
2
- Yuri Bogatyryov, 41, Soviet actor (At Home Among Strangers), medication clash related to heart attack.
- Marie Poland Fish, 88, American oceanographer and marine biologist.[8]
- Étienne Guibel, 83, French Olympic field hockey player (1936).
- Vladimír Lulek, 35, Czech family murderer, executed.
- Ondrej Nepela, 38, Czechoslovakian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (1964, 1968, 1972), lymph node cancer.[9]
- Arnold Nordmeyer, 87, New Zealand politician, Leader of the Opposition.[10]
- Nuno Oliveira, 63, Portuguese equestrian, horse trainer and dressage instructor.
- Walter M. Scott, 82, American set decorator (The Sound of Music, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).
- Marie Syrkin, 89, American writer and Zionist activist.[11]
3
- Dick Bass, 82, American MLB player (Washington Senators).
- John Cassavetes, 59, Greek-American actor (Johnny Staccato, The Dirty Dozen), cirrhosis of the liver.[12]
- Glenna Collett-Vare, 85, American amateur golfer, inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame.[13]
- John Davis, 77, British RAF officer.
- Betty Farrington, 90, American actress.
- Joan Grant, 81, English writer of historical novels (Winged Pharaoh).
- Harry Gray, 72, Australian rules footballer.
- Frank Hursley, 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley (General Hospital).
- Nina Kirsanova, 91, Russian-born Yugoslavian ballet dancer.
- Ebbe Langberg, 55, Danish actor and film director.
- John McCauley, 89, Australian Air Force senior commander, Chief of Air Force, stroke.[14]
- Louis H. Narcisse, 67, American religious leader, founder of Mt. Zion Spiritual Church, heart attack.
- Lionel Newman, 73, American conductor, pianist and composer (Academy Award for Best Original Score for Hello, Dolly!), cardiac arrest.[15]
- Kim Sung-jun, 35, South Korean boxer (WBC light flyweight champion), suicide by jumping.
- Bette Treadville, 77, American actress and singer.
4
- Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 68, American mandolinist, half of comedy duo Homer and Jethro, prostate cancer.[16]
- Medford Bryan Evans, 81, college professor and Conservative political activist.
- Thorkild Hansen, 62, Danish novelist (Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves, Islands of Slaves).
- Trevor Lucas, 45, Australian folk singer (Fotheringay), heart attack.[17]
- Grandizo Munis, 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician.[18]
- Ham Seok-heon, 87, Korean Quaker.[19]
- Ferris Webster, 76, American film editor (The Manchurian Candidate, The Great Escape).
5
- André Cheuva, 80, French international footballer and manager (Lille OSC).[20]
- Roy Chicago, Nigerian musician and band leader.
- Foun-Sen, 73, French-Vietnamese film actress.
- Percy Hoskins, 84, British crime reporter (Daily Express).
- Emrys James, 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor.[21]
- Rajinder Kaur, 57, Indian journalist and politician, shot by terrorists.
- Joe Morrison, 51, American NFL footballer and coach (New York Giants), congestive heart failure.[22]
- Killer Joe Piro, 67, American dance instructor, kidney disease.[23]
- Joe Raposo, 51, American composer, singer and pianist (Sesame Street theme, Bein' Green), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[24]
- Hal Wilder, 95, American NFL player (St. Louis All-Stars).
6
- Suri Bhagavantam, 79, Indian scientist, vice chancellor of Osmania University, director of Indian Institute of Science.
- Sushil Bose, 77, Indian cricketer.
- Joseph L. Carrigg, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1959).
- André Cayatte, 80, French filmmaker (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu).[25]
- Ron Field, 55, American choreographer and dancer (Cabaret), brain lesions.[26]
- Chris Gueffroy, 20, East German, last to be killed by use of firearms at the Berlin Wall.[27]
- Netty Herawaty, 59, Indonesian actress (Rodrigo de Villa).
- Antoni Łaciak, 49, Polish Olympic ski jumper (1964).
- Undine Smith Moore, 84, American composer and professor of music (Scenes from the Life of a Martyr), stroke.[28]
- Otto Schulmann, 86, German-born conductor and vocal teacher.
- King Tubby, 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot.[29]
- Barbara W. Tuchman, 77, American historian and author (The Guns of August, Stilwell and the American Experience in China), stroke.[30]
7
- Eric Jay, 81, British Anglican priest.
- Egon Larsson, 74, Swedish actor and director.
- Albert Branson Maris, 95, American judge.
- Adolf Martignoni, 79, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
- James T. Patterson, 80, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1959).
- Philip Pratt, 64, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan).
- Giuseppe Puca, 33, Italian criminal, boss of Nuova Camorra Organizzata, murdered after shootout.
- Sixto Rovina, 28, Netherlands Antilles international footballer, heart attack during game.
- Gilbert Simondon, 64, French philosopher.
- William Campbell Steere, 81, American botanist, expert on bryophytes, director of New York Botanical Garden.[31]
- Simon Virsaladze, 80, Georgian ballet, film and opera designer.[32]
- Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia, 69, German nobleman and diplomat.
8
- Matt Bross, 85, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers).
- John Coward, 81, British Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
- Cyril Luckham, 81, English film, television and theatre actor (Doctor Who, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em).
- Begum Khurshid Mirza, 70, Pakistani television and film actress.
- Lael Rodrigues, 37, Brazilian film director, producer, and editor.
- Webster B. Todd, 89, American Chairman of New Jersey Republican State Committee, heart attack.[33]
9
- Ken Adachi, 59–60, Canadian writer and literary critic (Toronto Star).[34]
- Bill Dalley, 87, New Zealand rugby union player (Canterbury, All Blacks).
- Oliver C. Dawson, 78, American athlete (John Carroll Blue Streaks) and sports coach (South Carolina State Bulldogs).
- Osamu Tezuka, 60, Japanese artist and animator (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion), stomach cancer.[35]
10
- Darnley Alexander, 69, Nigerian jurist, Chief Justice of Nigeria.
- Irving Brown, 77, American trade unionist (Presidential Medal of Freedom).[36]
- Agustín Ramos Calero, 69, decorated Puerto Rican soldier in the U.S. Army.[37]
- Cosmo Crawley, 84, English cricketer, rackets and real tennis player.
- Wayne Hays, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949-1976), heart attack.[38]
- Grady Higginbotham, 96, American sports player and coach.
- James Hunter III, 72, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit).
- Panini Ilangakoon, 69, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament.
- Dan Kelly, 52, Canadian-American sportscaster, lung cancer.[39]
- Emily Kimbrough, 89, American author and journalist (Our Hearts Were Young and Gay).[40]
- Herbert Ryman, 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer (Sleeping Beauty Castle), cancer.[41]
- Josef Schneeberger, 69, Austrian Olympic cross-country skier (1952 1956).
11
- Charles L. Bolte, 93, United States Army general, vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, stroke.[42]
- T. E. B. Clarke, 81, British screenwriter (The Lavender Hill Mob).[43]
- Leon Festinger, 69, American social psychologist (cognitive dissonance, social comparison theory), cancer.[44]
- Roland Gross, 80, American film editor and television editor (None but the Lonely Heart).
- George O'Hanlon, 76, American actor, comedian and writer (The Jetsons), stroke.[45]
- André Rolet, 87, French Olympic weightlifter (1924).
- Cecil C. Steiner, 92, American dentist (Steiner method of analysis).
- Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi.[46]
- Katharine Lane Weems, 89, American sculptor (Dolphins of the Sea, Lotta Fountain).
12
- Thomas Bernhard, 58, Austrian novelist and playwright (Correction, Extinction), heart attack.[47]
- Eduard Braesecke, 83, German Olympic long-distance runner (1936).
- Jorge Romero Brest, 83, Argentinian art critic.
- Attilio Dottesio, 79, Italian film actor and singer.
- Pat Finucane, 39, Irish lawyer, murdered.[48]
- Gordon Kramer, 67, Australian rules footballer.
- Euel Moore, 80, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants).
- Pandit Narendra Sharma, 75, Indian writer and poet (Satyam Shivam Sundaram theme).
- Bill Speer, 46, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Boston Bruins), snowmobile accident.[49]
13
- Ernestine Barrier, 80, American stage, film and television actress (Project Moonbase).
- Hal Broda, 83, American NFL player (Cleveland Bulldogs).
- Claude Dupuy, 87, French Roman Catholic archbishop.
- Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, 79, member of the Greek Royal family.
- Thorbjørn Frydenlund, 96, Norwegian Olympic wrestler (1912).
- Dud Harris, 85, American NFL player (Portsmouth Spartans).
- Hip Linkchain, 52, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (Change My Blues, That Will Never Do), mesothelioma cancer.[50]
- Aubrey Martyn, 82, Australian rules footballer.
- Aubrey Menen, 76, British author and theatre critic.[51]
- Richard Roud, 59, American writer on film, co-founder of the New York Film Festival.[52]
- Jean-Michel Rouzière, 57, French actor.
- Geoff Selby, 23, Australian rugby league footballer (Illawarra Steelers, St. George Dragons), car accident.[53]
- Dave Tarras, appr. 94, Ukrainian-American clarinetist and bandleader, pneumonia.[54]
14
- Bonnie Bannon, 75, American actress, dancer, and model.
- James Bond, 89, American ornithologist, curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Birds of the West Indies).[55]
- Vincent Crane, 45, English keyboardist (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster), suicide by drug overdose.[56]
- Krishnarao Dhulap, 68, leader of Peasants and Workers Party of India.
- Duncan Gregg, 78, American Olympic rower (1932).
- Hilario, 83, Spanish footballer.
- Mike Riordan, 82, American NFL player (Staten Island Stapletons).
- Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič, 86, Belarusian politician, president of the government-in-exile of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
15
- Hüseyin Akbaş, 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist (1956, 1960, 1964).[57]
- Jorge de Cárdenas, 55, Cuban Olympic sailor (1952, 1956, 1960).
- Sita Devi, 71, Indian Princess Consort of Vuyyur, the "Indian Wallis Simpson".
- Daniel Fox, 61, American polymer chemist (LEXAN).[58]
- Robert Kerns, 55, American baritone (Vienna State Opera).
- Lee E. McMahon, 57, American computer scientist (sed stream editor).
- Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.[59]
- Antonio Garzoni Provenzani, 82, Italian Olympic rower (1932).
- Benito Totti, 74, Italian Olympic boxer (1936).
- Aleksandr Travin, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic basketball player (1964).
- Sabo Bakin Zuwo, 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State.
16
- Andy Black, 72, Scottish international footballer (Manchester City, Scotland).[60]
- Ida Ehre, 88, Austrian-German actor, theatre director and manager, heart attack.[61]
- Arne Jørgensen, 91, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920).
- David Kerr, 65, Australian cricketer.
- Mirza Abdul Halim, 23, Singaporean police constable, murdered.[62]
- Paco Lagerstrom, 74, Swedish-American applied mathematician and aeronautical engineer (Caltech).[63]
- Paweł Świętek, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952).
17
- Rudolf Brill, 89, German chemist.[64]
- Francesco Buccitelli, 66, Italian artist, mayor of Pacentro.
- Per Dahl, 72, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1952).
- Ian Fraser, 78, British judge, member of the House of Lords, car accident.[65]
- R. B. Frost, 81, American college sports coach.
- Lefty Gomez, 80, American Major League baseball player (New York Yankees), congestive heart failure.[66]
- Fernando Irayzoz, 64, Spanish Olympic modern pentathlete (1960).
- Guy Laroche, 67, French fashion designer.[67]
- Marguerite Roberts, 83, American screenwriter, blacklisted for not cooperating with House Un-American Activities Committee, arteriosclerosis.[68]
- Hanne Sobek, 88, German international footballer (Hertha BSC, Germany).[69]
- Si Titus, 70, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Steelers).
- Jan Vreede, 89, Dutch Olympic sailor (1924).
18
- John Bailey, 76, British screen and TV actor (The Forsyte Saga).[70]
- Mildred Burke, 73, American professional wrestler, women's world champion, stroke.[71]
- Dixie Deans, 75, Royal Air Force sergeant, Second World War bomber pilot.[72]
- Raymond Girard, 87, French film and stage actor.
- Dina Halpern, 79, Polish-born American actress.[73]
- Kathleen Hite, 71, American writer for radio and television (Gunsmoke, The Waltons).[74]
19
- Edward Beetham, 74, British colonial official, Resident Commissioner in Swaziland, Governor of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Rick Burks, 28, American musician and actor (Blood Diner), car accident.
- Eric F. Goldman, 72, American historian, presidential advisor (The Open Mind).[75]
- Sigurd Marius Johansen, 82, Norwegian politician.
- Edmund Knapp, 71, New Zealand cricketer.
- Alec Merrison, 64, British physicist, vice-chancellor of University of Bristol, director of Lloyds Bank.[76]
- Sándor Pázmándy, 76, Hungarian footballer.
- Jack de Sequeira, 73, Indian politician, Leader of the Opposition of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly.
- Franjo Škrinjar, 68, Yugoslavian Olympic long-distance runner (1960).
- Rosa Slade Gragg, 84, American activist and politician.[77]
20
- Stuart Black, 81, New Zealand Olympic sprinter (1932).
- Julio César Chaves, 81, Paraguayan historian.
- Percy Chen, 88, Trinidad-born Chinese lawyer, founding member of Hong Kong Bar Association.[78]
- Erika Köth, 63, German operatic soprano.[79]
- Anthony Leeds, 64, American anthropologist, heart attack.[80]
- Betty Mars, 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping.
- Aleksandr Medvedkin, 88, Soviet film director (Happiness).
- Manuel Rosas, 76, Mexican international footballer (Atlante F.C., Mexico).[81]
- Clarke Scholtz, 77, South African Olympic middle-distance runner (1936).
- Adolfo Yedro, 66, Argentine Olympic rower (1948).
21
- Valentín Beperet, 62, Chilean footballer.
- Harry Clarke, 83, Australian rules footballer.
- Paul Davis, 63, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
- Robert Dorning, 75, English musician, ballet dancer and actor, diabetes.
- Sándor Márai, 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist (Embers).[82]
- Chet Ross, 71, American MLB player (Boston Bees/Braves).
- Otar Taktakishvili, 64, Georgian composer and conductor (Sonata for Flute and Piano, Mindia).[83]
- Alex Thépot, 82, French international footballer and Olympian (Red Star FC, France).[84]
- Moshe Unna, 86, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1949-1969).
22
- Roxanne Arlen, 58, American film and stage actress.
- Harry Brand, 93, American press agent, credited with the fame of Shirley Temple, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, heart attack.[85]
- Raymond Gower, 72, British politician, member of the House of Commons, heart attack.[86]
- Nadezhda Kosheverova, 86, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
- Abel Wolman, 96, American engineer, pioneer in sanitary engineering.[87]
- Joan Woodbury, 73, American actress (The Eagle's Brood, Brenda Starr, Reporter).[88]
23
- David Mowbray Balme, 76, British professor, Principal of the University College of the Gold Coast.[89]
- Hans Hellmut Kirst, 74, German novelist (Die Nacht der Generale).[90]
- Ramito, 73, Puerto Rican composer (Qué Bonita Bandera), suicide by gunshot.
- Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, 82, Tibetan nobleman and statesman, Finance Minister of Tibet, stomach cancer.[91]
- Roy Tyner, 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot.[92]
24
- Sparky Adams, 94, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals).[93]
- Paul M. Bator, 59, Hungarian-born American legal scholar and Supreme Court advocate, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.[94]
- Teddy Brannon, 72, American jazz and blues pianist.
- Norris Cotton, 88, American politician, US representative (1947-1954) and senator (1954-1974, 1975).[95]
- Joe Harvey, 70, English footballer and manager (Newcastle United, Bradford City).[96]
- Ben Kish, 71, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Steagles, Philadelphia Eagles).
- Margo Lion, 89, Ottoman-French singer and actress (Threepenny Opera).
- Paulaseer, 68, Indian preacher, 'faith healer'.
- Mallica Reynolds, 78, Jamaican artist and religious leader (Shining the Spring).[97]
- William Thayer Tutt, 76, American ice hockey and figure skating executive.[98]
25
- Paula Banholzer, 87, German love interest of Bertolt Brecht.
- Angna Enters, 91, American dancer, mime, painter and writer (Lost Angel, Tenth Avenue Angel).[99]
- Robert Foulk, 80, American television and film actor (Lassie).
- Wilhelm Hölter, 84, German painter.
- Bob Ivory, 65, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).
26
- Roy Eldridge, 78, American jazz trumpeter.[100]
- Joseph Fenton, appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army (body found on this date).[101]
- Alexander Golling, 83, German actor.
- Reunald Jones, 78, American jazz trumpeter.[102]
- Mouloud Mammeri, 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident.[103]
- Éloi Meulenberg, 76, Belgian cyclist.
- Pablo Palitos, 83, Spanish-born Argentine stage and film actor.
- Clayton Robson, 87, Indian-born English first-class cricketer.[104]
27
- Paul Oswald Ahnert, 91, German astronomer (Kalender für Sternfreunde).[105]
- Shiba P. Chatterjee, 86, Indian Professor of Geography.
- Mauricio Garcés, 62, Mexican actor and comedian (Fray Don Juan, Modisto de señoras).[106]
- Brian Hall, 59, English cricketer.
- Kim Hyun-chul, 87, Korean independence activist and politician, Prime Minister of South Korea.
- Göran Larsson, 56, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1952).
- Konrad Lorenz, 85, Austrian zoologist and author (Man Meets Dog), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Nazi supporter.[107]
- Sayuti Melik, 80, Indonesian political agitant (Proclamation of Indonesian Independence).
- Gilberto Molina, 52, Colombian emerald magnate and drug trafficker (Medellín cartel), murdered.[108]
- Skippy Scheib, 85, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
- Joe Silver, 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack.[109]
28
- Karl Anderson, 88, American Olympic hurdler (1924).
- Richard Armour, 82, American poet and author.[110]
- Bernard Beryl Brodie, 81, English-born American biochemical and neurochemical pharmacology scientist.[111]
- Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, 78, Brazilian lexicographer, translator and writer (Aurélio Dictionary).[112]
- Hermann Burger, 46, Swiss poet and novelist (Die Wasserfallfinsternis von Badgastein), suicide.[113]
- Josef Epp, 68, Austrian Olympic footballer (1948).
- Everett E. Hatcher, 46, American Special Agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration, shot during undercover operation.[114]
- Douglas Kendrew, 79, British army general and rugby union player (Leicester, England), Governor of Western Australia.[115]
- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, 100, Indian yoga teacher.
- Alton C. Parker, 81, Canadian police officer, first black Canadian detective.[116]
- Pak Se-yong, 86, North Korean poet and politician (Aegukka – North Korean national anthem).
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