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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1989.
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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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October 1989
1
- Eric Ball, 85, British composer and brass band conductor.[1]
- Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican politician, traffic collision.[2]
- Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor.[3]
- Ian Keith, 81, Scottish peer and nobleman.[4]
- David Lindesay-Bethune, 63, British soldier and hereditary peer.[5]
- Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra).[6]
- Frank Sachse, 72, American football and basketball player.
2
- Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress (White Amazons).[7]
- Aubrey Boomer, 91, American golfer, stroke.[8]
- Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor and director, heart attack.[9]
- Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer.[10]
- Torben Hundahl, 44, Danish film and television actor.
- Gregory Marshall, 50, American actor.[11]
- Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, 73, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arauca, shot.[12]
3
- James Bickford, 76, American Olympic bobsledder (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956).
- John Eugene Cay Jr., 74, American author (Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter), brain tumour.[13]
- David H. Geiger, 53–54, American engineer, heart attack.[14]
- Mehmut Şevket Karman, 77, Turkish Olympic skier (1936).
- Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer.[15]
- Andrée Lafayette, 86, French actress (Trilby).[16]
- Dennis McGee, 96, American Cajun musician.[17]
- Yvonne Sylvain, 82, Haitian physician.[18]
- Ray Thomas, 63, Australian rules footballer.
- Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke.[19]
- Norman Yardley, 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke.[20]
4
- Michael Barton Akehurst, 48–49, British lawyer and author.[21]
- Thomas Canning, 77, American composer and music educator.[22]
- Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer (Monty Python), tonsil cancer.[23]
- Laura Combes, 35, American bodybuilder, alcohol poisoning.[24]
- Frederic de Hoffmann, 65, Austrian-born American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), AIDS from blood transfusion.[25]
- Moisés Giroldi, 39, Panamanian military commander (1989 Panamanian coup attempt), executed.[26]
- Ramchandra Purushottam Marathe, 64, Indian music director, singer and actor.
- Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer.[27]
- Betsy King Ross, 68, American actress, anthropologist and author.[28]
- Lutero Vargas, 77, Brazilian physician, diplomat and politician, ambassador to Nicaragua.[29]
5
- Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1969), heart ailments and pneumonia.[30]
- Lawrence Dundas, 80, British hereditary peer.[31]
- Ernesto Formenti, 62, Italian Olympic boxer (1948).
- John Layton, 77, American Olympic sports shooter (1948).
- Paul Lerpae, 89, Mexican-born American special effects artist (Unconquered).
- Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
- Big Wilson, 65, American radio personality, heart attack.[32]
6
- Patricia Cockburn, 75, Irish writer and artist, cancer.[33]
- Bette Davis, 81, American actress (Dangerous, Jezebel), cancer.[34]
- Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor and director, ruptured aneurysm.
- Gaston Fayaud, 75, French Olympic boxer (1932, 1936).
- Howard Garns, 84, American architect, creator of Sudoku, cancer.
- Paul Henry, 77, Belgian footballer.
- Tina Isa, 16, American murder victim.
- Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer and journalist, sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
- Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe officer and flying ace.[35]
- Jack Turner, 100, Canadian war photographer.[36]
7
- Kurt Carlsen, 75, Danish-born American sea-captain (SS Flying Enterprise).[37]
- Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, Victoria Cross recipient, cancer.[38]
- Josep Espada, 77, Spanish footballer.
- Forrest McPherson, 77, American NFL player (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers).
- Aleksanteri Saarvala, 76, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1936, 1948).
- Earl Thomas, 74, American basketball player.
- Pat Twohill, 73, New Zealand actor.
8
- Genki Abe, 95, Japanese lawyer, police bureaucrat and cabinet minister.[39]
- Onest Conley, 82, American film actor (Racing Luck).[40]
- Anne Dawson, 92, British secret agent in World War I.[41]
- Gerry Denoird, 87, Canadian NHL player (Toronto St. Pats).
- Alwyn Harris, Royal Ulster Constabulary superintendent killed by the Provisional I.R.A..[42]
- Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist (Club Atlético Welcome, Uruguay).[43]
- Dagmar Oakland, 92, American actress.
- Siegfried Weiß, 83, German actor.
- Edward Woods, 86, American actor (The Public Enemy).[44]
9
- Ernst Andersson, 80, Swedish footballer.
- Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack.
- Elizabeth Cadell, 85, British and Portuguese writer.[45]
- Fernand Ciatti, 77, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1936).
- Herman Clark, 58, American NFL player (Chicago Bears).
- Sven Israelsson, 69, Swedish Olympic Nordic combined skier (1948).
- Penny Lernoux, 49, American author and journalist, lung cancer.[46]
- Silvio Parodi, 57, Paraguayan football player and manager.
- Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-born American writer (The Hazaras), liver failure.[47]
10
- Robin Hughes, 69, Argentinian-born British film and television actor, liver disease.[48]
- William Markus, 72, Finnish-British film director, actor, and screenwriter.
- Murray McFarlane, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).
11
- Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect, designer of Synagogues, lung cancer.[49]
- László Hidvéghy, 78, Hungarian Olympic speed skater (1936).
- M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist (Hubbert peak theory), pulmonary embolism.[50]
- Theodore Lorber, 82, American Olympic fencer (1932).
- Bill Phebus, 80, American MLB player (Washington Senators).
- Arnold Picker, 76, American film executive and mayor of Golden Beach, Florida, on Nixon's Enemies List, pneumonia.[51]
- Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director (The Secret of NIMH, Scarface), AIDS.[52]
- Zeng Xianzhi, 79, Chinese revolutionary and politician.
12
- Rolando Bacigalupo, 75, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1936).
- Herb Boschen, 81, Australian rules footballer.
- Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer.[53]
- Joe Foy, 46, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox), heart attack.[54]
- Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS.[55]
- Tommy Muldoon, 92, Irish footballer and Olympian (1924).
- Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.[56]
- Jay Ward, 69, American creator of animated TV cartoons (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends), renal cancer.[57]
- N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet and journalist.
13
- Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.[58]
- Halina Bielińska, 75, Polish film director, animator, and screenwriter.
- Tony Castaño, 77, Mexican baseball player.
- Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader.[59]
- Ed Kelaart, 88, Ceylonese cricketer.
- Munawar Ali Khan, 59, Indian classical vocalist.
- Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash.[60]
- Patrick McAuliffe, 75, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1944-1969).
- Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic athlete (1924).
- Herbert Wildman, 77, American Olympic water polo player (1932, 1936).
- Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter.[61]
14
- Ingeborg Brams, 67, Danish actress.
- Martin Broszat, 63, German historian.[62]
- Michael Carmine, 30, American actor, AIDS.[63]
- Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian-born silent-screen actress.[64]
- Art Keay, 82, Canadian Olympic long-distance runner (1928).
- Scott Liebler, 29, American racing driver, racing accident.[65]
- René Petit, 90, French engineer and international footballer (Real Unión, France).[66]
- Dov Sadan, 87, Israeli literacy critic and politician, member of the Knesset (1965-1968).
- Amancio Williams, 76, Argentinian architect.[67]
15
- James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer.[68]
- Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure.[69]
- Lou Guisto, 94, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians).
- Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist and short story writer (Hourglass), lung cancer.[70]
- Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer (Island of the Blue Dolphins), prostate cancer.[71]
- Michał Rola-Żymierski, 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland.
- Heinrich Walter, 90, German-Russian botanist.[72]
16
- Mirko Bonačić, 86, Yugoslavian Olympic footballer (1928).
- Walter Farley, 74, American author (The Black Stallion), cancer.[73]
- Juan B. Fernandez-Badillo, 77, Puerto Rican district judge (United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico).
- Hans Frette, 62, Norwegian politician.
- Alfred Krupa, 74, Polish-born Yugoslavian painter.
- Frederick Millar, 89, British diplomat, ambassador to West Germany.[74]
- Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor (A Song to Remember), leukemia.[75]
17
- John J. Anderson, 32, American writer on computing and technology (Computer Shopper, MacUser), California earthquake.[76]
- George Gardiner, 74, Australian cricketer.
- Morteza Hannaneh, 66, Iranian composer and musician.
- Helge Jansson, 85, Swedish Olympic athlete (1924, 1928).
- Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician (operator theory).[77]
- John Mackinson, 65, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals).
- J. B. Malone, 75, Irish hill-walking enthusiast.[78]
- Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.[79]
- R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident.[80]
- Derek Pace, 57, English footballer (Sheffield United).
- Erling Schroeder, 85, Danish film actor.
18
- Lešek Boubela, 79, Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player (1936).
- Stan Miasek, 65, American NBA basketballer (Chicago Stags).[81]
- John Reddish, 84, English footballer and cricketer.
- David Victor, 79, American producer and screenwriter.
19
- Eric Dixon, 59, American tenor saxophonist, flautist and composer.[82]
- Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer (Everton, England).[83]
- Jerzy Jurowicz, 69, Polish footballer.
- Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia.
- Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor (Aangan Terha), heart attack.
- Essie Shevill, 81, Australian cricketer.
- Alfred Zulkowski, 49, German footballer.
20
- Dan Ben-Amotz, 65, Polish-born Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist and author, liver cancer.[84]
- Rupert Costo, 82–83, Native American writer, activist and publisher.[85]
- Dmitry Faddeev, 82, Soviet mathematician.[86]
- Katharina Heinroth, 92, German zoologist, director of Berlin Zoo.[87]
- Jim Karthaus, 91, Australian rules footballer.
- Gurdial Singh Phul, 77–78, Indian Punjabi dramatist.[88]
- Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Anne of the Thousand Days), liver cancer.[89]
- James Smurthwaite, 73, English cricketer.
- Arthur Spjuth, 85, Swedish art director.
21
- Alfred Hayes, 79, American banker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[90]
- Jean Image, 78, Hungarian-French director and producer of animation films.
- Cencio Mantovani, 48, Italian Olympic cyclist (1964).
- Alphonse Margailland, 80, French Olympic rower (1928).
22
- Ross Freeman, 41, American electrical engineer and inventor, co-founder of Xilinx.[91]
- Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer and songwriter (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face), complications from heart surgery.[92]
- Tony Manero, 84, American golfer, winner of 1936 U.S. Open.[93]
- Charles Gelbert Neese, 73, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee).
- Duke Nelson, 82, American college athletics coach and administrator.
- Bjarne Daniel Solli, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Jacob Wetterling, 11, American murder victim.[94]
- Roland Winters, 84, American actor (Charlie Chan), stroke.[95]
23
- Cecil Alloo, 94, New Zealand cricketer, soldier, and lawyer.
- Edmund E. Anderson, 83, American automotive designer (American Motors Corporation, General Motors).
- Armida, 78, Mexican-born American actress, singer and dancer, heart attack.[96]
- Bert Hyde, 82, Australian rules footballer.
- Basavaraj Kattimani, 70, Indian novelist and journalist.[97]
- Clive Lewington, 69, Australian rules footballer.
- Anatoly Lutikov, 56, Russian chess player.[98]
- Konrad Wolff, 82, German pianist and musicologist, heart failure.[99]
24
- Dean Alfange, 91, American politician, deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer.[100]
- Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian army general, Chief of the Army Staff.
- Ralph Chase, 86, American NFL player (Hammond Pros, Akron Indians).
- Eugène Claudius-Petit, 82, French politician.[101]
- Ronald Davis, 74, British Olympic field hockey player (1948).
- Joe Ewing Estes, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas).
- Phyllis Greenacre, 95, American psychoanalyst and physician.[102]
- Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain.[103]
- Vasilijus Matuševas, 43, Soviet Lithuanian Olympic volleyball player (1968).
- Otto Olsen, 94, Danish Olympic modern pentathlete (1924, 1928).
- Ollie O'Mara, 98, American MLB player (Brooklyn Robins).
- Alex Seidel, 80, German weapons manufacturer, co-founder of Heckler & Koch.
- Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer.
25
- Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 68, Mexican-born American painter, sculptor and illustrator, murdered.[104]
- Georges Calmon, 79, French Olympic equestrian (1956).
- Frank Davies, 79, Australian rules footballer.
- Enrico Forcella, 82, Venezuelan Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964, 1968).
- Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist (The Group), lung cancer.[105]
- Steve Moore, 29, American NFL footballer (New England Patriots), murdered.[106]
- Cornel Orza, 73, Romanian footballer.
- Stuart Parkinson, 60, British Olympic alpine skier and bobsledder (1948, 1956).
- Carl Schmitt, 100, American painter and writer.[107]
- Gerard Walschap, 91, Belgian writer.[108]
26
- Burt Bales, 73, American jazz stride pianist.
- Don Bass, 33, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), murdered.[109]
- Ermal C. Fraze, 76, American engineer, inventor of the pull-tab opener, brain tumour.[110]
- Mabel Hampton, 87, American gay activist and dancer, pneumonia.[111]
- Nora Levin, 73, American Holocaust historian, cancer.[112]
- Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.[113]
- Gordon Reid, 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer.[114]
- Andy Roberts, 42, New Zealand cricketer.
- Cynthia Slater, 44, American sex educator, AIDS.
- Kumeko Urabe, 87, Japanese movie actress, burns.
27
- Burton C. Gray, 48, American economist and entrepreneur, co-founded Scientific Time Sharing Corporation.[115]
- Ted Grefe, 72, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).
- William Kerwin, 62, American actor and filmmaker, heart attack.[116]
- Allan Campbell McLean, 66, British writer and political activist.[117]
- Amy Mihaljevic, 10, American murder victim.[118]
- Benjamin Murmelstein, 84, Austrian rabbi.[119]
- Francesco Ruspoli, 90, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
- Willy Senn, 69, Swiss Olympic shot putter (1948).
- Sándor Szomori, 78, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1936).
- Alfred Wilson, 85, American Olympic rower (1924).
28
- Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver.[120]
- Henry Hall, 91, English bandleader.[121]
- Louise Hay, 54, French-born American mathematician (recursively enumerable sets), breast cancer.[122]
- Johannes Lislerud, 78, Norwegian politician.
- Dado Marino, 74, American flyweight boxer, world flyweight champion.
- Liam Redmond, 76, Irish stage, film and television actor.[123]
- Al Satterfield, 67, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers).
- Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director (Aelita).[124]
- Peter Whiteley, 54, English cricketer.
- Kateb Yacine, 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays.[125]
29
- Roland Anderson, 85, American movie art director.
- Jack Barker, 71, Australian rules footballer.
- Amerigo Castrighella, 63, Italian actor.
- Róża Maria Goździewska, 53, Polish child nurse during Warsaw uprising.
- Jeanne Herviale, 80, French actress.
- Ndaba Mhlongo, 56, South African actor and choreographer.
30
- Joseph Beruh, 65, American film and theatrical producer.
- Herbert Bignall, 83, British Olympic long-distance runner (1928).
- Walter Bradshaw, 83, English cricketer.
- Willie Cornelius, 83, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
- Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 88, American attorney and U.S. district judge, pneumonia.[126]
- Karen Grigorian, 42, Armenian chess master, suicide.
- Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director.[127]
- Douglas Legg, 75, British Olympic basketball player (1948).
- Aristid Lindenmayer, 63, Hungarian biologist (L-systems).[128]
- Francis J. Love, 88, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1949).
- Patrick Mooney, 85, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1954-1969).
- Raymond Offner, 61, French Olympic basketball player (1948).
- Erich Reuter, 85, Nazi German general in the Wehrmacht.[129]
- Yisrael Spira, 99, Polish Holocaust survivor.[130]
- Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, diabetes.[131]
31
- Conrad Beck, 88, Swiss composer.
- Monica Collingwood, 81, American film editor (The Bishop's Wife).
- Raymond Durand, 81, French footballer.
- Sune Lindström, 82, Swedish architect.
- Elliott Loughlin, 79, American U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.[132]
- Georgi Partsalev, 64, Bulgarian theatre and film actor.[133]
- George Rae, 78, English cricketer.
- Roger Scott, 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer.[134]
- Earl Seick, 78, American NFL player (New York Giants).
- Walter R. Tkach, 72, American Physician to the President, heart disease.[135]
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- Wilgar Campbell, 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness.
- Johannes Mashiane, South African rapist and serial killer, suicide.
- Gerry Monroe, 56, English pop singer.
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