Deaths in January 1989
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.
January 1989
[edit]1
[edit]- Charles Cornell, 77, American Communist (Socialist Workers Party).[1]
- Musa Mwariama, 61, Kenyan revolutionary leader (Mau Mau rebellion), ingested snake venom.
- Joseph Petre, 17th Baron Petre, 74, English peer.
- G. Sankara Pillai, 58, Indian playwright, literary critic and director.[2]
- Anthony Pini, 86, Argentinian-Scottish cellist (London Philharmonic Orchestra).[3]
- Irvin Shapiro, 82, American producer, film importer and film distributor, complications from Parkinson's disease.[4]
- Aleka Stratigou, 62, Greek actress
2
[edit]- Safdar Hashmi, 34, Indian playwright and director, and communist activist, murdered.[5]
3
[edit]- Robert Banks, 67, American chemist (Phillips Petroleum, Perkin Medal).[6]
- Betty Behrens, 84, British historian and academic (University of Cambridge).
- Errol Le Cain, 47, British animator and children's book illustrator (Hiawatha's Childhood – Kate Greenaway Medal).
- Laurence Grafftey-Smith, 96, British diplomat, member of the British Consular Service.
- Eddie Heywood, 73, American jazz pianist and composer (Soft Summer Breeze, Canadian Sunset).[7]
- Bernhard Krüger, 84, Nazi German SS Sturmbannführer.
- Lina Prokofiev, 91, Spanish singer[8]
- Sergei Sobolev, 80, Soviet mathematician.[9]
- Robert Thomas, 61, French writer, actor and film director.
- Nick Virgilio, 60, American haiku poet, heart attack.[10]
- Jean Willes, 65, American film and television actress (The King and Four Queens, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), liver cancer.[11]
4
[edit]- Srikrishna Alanahalli, 41, Indian novelist and poet (Kaadu, Parasangada Gendethimma).
- Ratanlal Brahmin, 88, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
- Pino Calvi, 58, Italian pianist, conductor and composer (Accarezzame).
- Junko Furuta, 17, Japanese student, murdered.[12]
- Clare Leighton, 91, English–American artist, writer and illustrator, known for wood engravings.[13]
- D. R. Nanayakkara, 73, Sri Lankan cinema actor (Rekava, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
- Robert Watson Pomeroy, 86, American businessman and politician, member of the New York Senate, heart failure.[14]
- Naomi Chapman Woodroof, 88, American agriculturalist, known for increasing peanut yields five-fold.[15]
5
[edit]- Philip Herschkowitz, 82, Romanian-born composer and music theorist.[16]
- Dexter Masters, 79, American editor and novelist (One World or None: a Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb).[17]
- Nell O'Day, 79, American equestrian and actress, heart attack.[18]
6
[edit]- Eduardo Balderas, 81, Mexican-born American translator for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[19]
- Hans von Campenhausen, 85, Baltic German Protestant theologian.
- Jim Hurtubise, 56, American race car driver, winner of 1966 Atlanta 500, heart attack.[20]
- Illingworth "Buck" Kerr, 83, Canadian painter, known for landscape paintings of Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills, suicide.[21]
- Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, 69, American figure in civil rights and women's movement, director of the United States Women's Bureau, heart attack.[22]
- Sir Edmund Leach, 78, British social anthropologist, president of the Royal Anthropological Institute.[23]
- Elisa Lispector, 77, Brazilian novelist (Além da Fronteira, O Muro de Pedras).[24]
- George Mercer, 44, American rapist and murderer, executed.[25]
- John Donald Robb, 96, American composer and arts administrator.[26]
- Kehar Singh, 53–54, Indian co-conspirator in the Indira Gandhi assassination, executed.[27]
- Satwant Singh, 26–27, Indian co-assassin of Indira Gandhi, executed.[28]
7
[edit]- Frank Adams, 58, British mathematician, Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge (Adams spectral sequence, Adams conjecture).[29]
- Alfred Dieck, 82, German archaeologist whose work has been largely discredited.[30]
- Hirohito, 87, longest reigning Emperor of Japan, cancer.[31]
- Josef Moll, 80, Nazi German Wehrmacht and West German Bundeswehr officer, Inspector of the Army.
- Aslam Pahalwan, 61, Pakistani professional wrestler and world heavyweight champion.[32]
- Timothy Plowman, 44, American ethnobotanist, known for study of Erythroxylum, AIDS contracted from inoculations.[33]
- Stuart Rhodes, 78, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club).[34]
8
[edit]- Mieczysław G. Bekker, 83–84, Polish American vehicular engineer, contributed to design and construction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
- Ronald DiPerna, 41, American mathematician in nonlinear partial differential equations.[35]
- Johnny Jordaan, 64, Dutch singer of levenslied.[36]
- Kenneth McMillan, 56, American actor (Rhoda, Dune), liver disease.[37]
9
[edit]- Richard Barr, 71, American theatre director and producer, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, AIDS-related liver failure.[38]
- Walter Köhler, 91, German Nazi Party politician, Minister President of Baden.
- Marshall H. Stone, 85, American mathematician at Harvard (Stone–von Neumann uniqueness theorem), stroke.[39]
- Bill Terry, 90, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants).[40]
- John K. Waters, 82, American general in the U.S. Army, heart failure.[41]
10
[edit]- Chris Avram, 57, Romanian-Italian film actor
- Yi Eungro, 84, Korean-born French painter and printmaker, heart attack.
- Kai Fjell, 81, Norwegian painter.
- Karl Geiringer, 89, Austrian-American musicologist and biographer of composers, complications from a fall.[42]
- Valentin Glushko, 80, Soviet engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program.[43]
- Royal Little, 92, American founder and chair of Textron.[44]
- Herbert Morrison, 83, American radio journalist, voice of the Hindenburg disaster.[45]
- Colin Winchester, 55, assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, assassinated.[46]
11
[edit]- George Abell, 84, English civil servant and cricketer, director of the Bank of England.[47]
- Hai Deng, 86, Chinese Buddhist monk and martial artist, emeritus abbot of Shaolin Temple.
- Michael Forrestal, 61, American National Security Advisor of President John F. Kennedy, aneurysm.[48]
- Ray Moore, 47, British broadcaster, host of early morning show on BBC Radio 2, throat cancer.[49]
- José Bustamante y Rivero, 94, Peruvian politician and diplomat, President of Peru.[50]
- Jackie Wright, 84, Northern Irish comedian, bald-headed sidekick of Benny Hill.
12
[edit]- Ray Morehart, 89, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees).[51]
- Percy Price Jr., 52, American amateur boxer and Olympian.[52]
- Nikos Psacharopoulos, 60, Greek-American theatre producer and director, co-founder of Williamstown Theater Festival, colon cancer.[53]
- Satyam, 55–56, Indian composer.
- Willy Schneider, 83, German schlager singer.
13
[edit]- Hermann Bartels, 88, Nazi German architect and member of the SS.
- Sterling Allen Brown, 87, American professor and poet, Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia, leukemia.[54]
- Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 89, British feminist and politician, Member of Parliament.[55]
- Candy Csencsits, 33, American professional female bodybuilder and actress, breast cancer.[56]
- Hiram E. McCallum, 89, Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto.
- John Moorman, 83, English Bishop of Ripon.
- Ray Morehart, 89, American baseball player.[57]
- José María Peña, 93, Spanish international footballer and manager, Olympian.[58]
- Joe Spinell, 52, American actor (The Godfather, Rocky, Taxi Driver)
14
[edit]- Ernie Blake, 75, German-American co-founder of Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, pneumonia.[59]
- Robert Lekachman, 68, American economist, promoter of social justice, liver cancer.[60]
- Robert Lembke, 75, German television presenter and game show host (Was bin ich? – What's my Line)
- Ramesh Prasad Mohapatra, 49, Indian archaeologist, curator for archaeology at Odisha State Museum.[61]
- Marco Vassi, 51, American author, noted for erotica, pneumonia.
- Richard Warner, 77, English actor (George and Margaret, When We Are Married)
- Nguyễn Văn Xuân, 96, Vietnamese politician, prime minister of Vietnam.
15
[edit]- Wendy Foster, 51, British architect, co-founder of Team 4 and Foster Associates, cancer.
- Helen Logan, 82, American screenwriter.
- Ibrahim Shihab, 65, Maldivian writer and politician.
- Wilf Slack, 34, English international cricketer (English national team, Middlesex), heart attack.[62]
- Trevor Swan, 71, Australian economist (Solow–Swan growth model).[63]
16
[edit]- Mick Baxter, 32, English footballer (Preston North End, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth), cancer.
- Pierre Boileau, 82, half of French crime-writing duo Boileau-Narcejac (Les Diaboliques, Vertigo).
- Joseph Henry Lynch, 77, British artist (Tina, Autumn Leaves, Woodland Goddess).
- Prem Nazir, 62, Indian actor (Vida Parayum Munpe, Iruttinte Athmavu), measles.[64]
- George Ray Tweed, 86, American radioman in the U.S. Navy, known for evading capture for more than two years, car accident.[65]
- Trey Wilson, 40, American actor (Raising Arizona, Bull Durham), cerebral hemorrhage.[66]
17
[edit]- Gordon Allott, 82, American politician (Republican), U.S. Senator.[67]
- Wajid Ali Khan Burki, 88, Pakistani ophthalmologist, lung cancer.[68]
- Michael Francke, 42, American judge, director of New Mexico and Oregon Corrections Departments, murdered.[69]
- Sam Longson, 88, British businessman, chairman of Derby County Football Club.
- Óscar Vargas Prieto, 71, Peruvian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Peru.
- Georges Schéhadé, 83, Lebanese playwright and poet (Histoire de Vasco).
- Alfredo Zitarrosa, 52, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and poet (Doña Soledad, Crece desde el Pie, Recordándote).
18
[edit]- Bruce Chatwin, 48, British travel writer and novelist (On the Black Hill, Utz), AIDS.[70]
- Buster Clarkson, 73, American Major League and Negro League baseballer (Boston Braves).[71]
- John D. Hickerson, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines and Finland, cancer.[72]
- Irving Resnick, 72, American mobster, boxing promoter and manager, heart failure.[73]
19
[edit]- Devi Dja, 74, Indonesian-American dancer, actress and singer (Dardanella theatre company), cancer.[74]
- Viva Tattersall, 90, British stage and film actress (The Whispering Shadow).
- Norma Varden, 90, English-American actress (Casablanca, The White Cliffs of Dover, The Sound of Music), heart failure.[75]
- Octavio Vial, 70, Mexican international football manager and World Cup coach.
20
[edit]- Mete Adanır, 27, Turkish Cypriot footballer (Altay, Samsunspor), team bus accident.[76]
- Józef Cyrankiewicz, 77, Polish communist politician, prime minister and president of Poland.[77]
- John Harding, 92, British Army Field Marshall, Governor of Cyprus.[78]
- Alamgir Kabir, 50, Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist, drowned.[79]
- Beatrice Lillie, 94, Canadian-British actress, singer and comedic performer (Inside U.S.A., High Spirits).[80]
- Whistlin' Alex Moore, 89, American blues pianist and singer (Blue Bloomer Blues, Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls), heart attack.[81]
- Morris Starsky, 55, American political and social activist, philosophy professor (Arizona State University), heart disease.[82]
- Halsey Stevens, 80, American music professor, biographer and composer.[83]
21
[edit]- Muharrem Bajraktari, 92, Albanian Muslim guerrilla fighter (National Committee for a Free Albania).
- William O. Burch, 84, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.[84]
- Morley Drury, 85, Canadian-American footballer (University of Southern California).[85]
- Carl Furillo, 66, American Major League baseball player (Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers), heart attack.[86]
- Leslie Halliwell, 59, British film critic (Filmgoer's Companion, Halliwell's Film Guide), esophageal cancer.[87]
- Gulabrao Patil, 67, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
- Robert H. Pierson, 78, American president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.[88]
- Billy Tipton, (Dorothy Lucille Tipton), 74, American transgender jazz musician and bandleader, peptic ulcer.[89]
22
[edit]- Miodrag Andrić, 45, Serbian actor.
- James Francis Collins, 83, American general in the U.S. Army, prostate cancer.[90]
- Sydney Goldstein, 85, British mathematician (Fluid dynamics).[91]
- Joseph Mattsson-Boze, 83, Swedish-American minister, pastor of Chicago's Philadelphia Church.
- Ugo Pignotti, 90, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist.[92]
- S. Vithiananthan, 64, Sri Lankan writer, vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
- Willie Wells, 82, American Negro League baseballer, congestive heart failure.[93]
- Sándor Weöres, 75, Hungarian poet and author.[94]
23
[edit]- George Case, 73, American Major League baseballer (Washington Senators), emphysema.[95]
- Nguyễn Minh Châu, 58, Vietnamese novelist.
- Salvador Dalí, 84, Spanish artist (Cabaret Scene, The Basket of Bread, The First Days of Spring), cardiac arrest.[96]
- M. Govindan, 69, Indian writer and cultural activist (Nokkukuthi).
- Robert Kelly, 75, American officer in the U.S. Navy, known for evacuating General Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines, pneumonia.[97]
- John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 81, Italian-born British peer and soldier, member of the House of Lords.
- Hans Karl Meyer, 90, Nazi German admiral in the Kriegsmarine and flotilla admiral of the West German navy.
- Angus Morrison, 86, English pianist, Order of the British Empire.
- Lars-Erik Torph, 28, Swedish rally driver, rally crash as a spectator.
- Gilbert L. Voss, 70–71, American conservationist and oceanographer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).[98]
24
[edit]- Ted Bundy, 42, American serial killer, executed.[99]
- Matelo Ferret, 70–71, French guitarist and composer, cancer.
- Roberto Figueroa, 84, Uruguayan international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.[100]
- George Knudson, 51, Canadian professional golfer, cancer.[101]
- Sasha Putrya, 11, Ukrainian artist, leukemia.
- Michael Scott, 83, Irish architect (Busáras building, Cork Opera House, Abbey Theatre).[102]
- Les Spann, 56, American jazz guitarist and flautist.
- Chauncey Stillman, 81, American philanthropist, art collector, conservationist and banking heir.[103]
- Siegfried Wischnewski, 66, German stage and film actor (Derrick, Der Kommissar)
25
[edit]- David Basnett, 64, British trade union leader, president of the Trades Union Congress.[104]
- Carlisle H. Humelsine, 73, American diplomat and military officer, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration.[105]
- Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, 51, Honduran military officer, head of the Honduran armed forces, assassinated.[106]
- Alvin Robinson, 51, American rhythm and blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (Something You Got).
- Bikki Sunazawa, 57, Japanese woodcarver, painter, artist and sculptor, bone marrow cancer.[107]
- Dave Underwood, 60, English footballer.
26
[edit]- Morton DaCosta, 74, American theatre and film director and producer, writer and actor (Plain and Fancy, Auntie Mame, The Music Man), heart failure.[108]
- Donnie Elbert, 52, American soul singer and songwriter (Where Did Our Love Go, I Can't Help Myself), stroke.[109]
- William Forrest, 86, American theatre, film and television actor, heart failure.[110]
- Albert Hofstadter, 78, American philosopher.[111]
- H. Claude Hudson, 102, American businessman and civil rights advocate, founder of Broadway Federal Savings and Loan Association.[112]
- Segundo Llorente, 82, Spanish Jesuit missionary, philosopher and author.[113]
27
[edit]- Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, 62, Irish writer (Dialann Deoraí, Deoraithe).[114]
- Abu Baker Asvat, 46, South African medical doctor, murdered.[115]
- David Buck, 52, English actor and voice actor (Horatio Hornblower, The Lord of the Rings)
- Bayani Casimiro, 70, Filipino dancer.
- Bob Haymes, 65, American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter (That's All), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[116]
- Robert A. Henle, 65–66, American electrical engineer (semiconductors).[117]
- Vasily Konovalenko, 59, Soviet artist (gemstone sculptures), cerebral hemorrhage.[118]
- Willibald Kreß, 82, German international footballer and manager (Dresdner SC).[119]
- Arthur Marshall, 78, British writer, raconteur and broadcaster (Call My Bluff).
- Sir Thomas Sopwith, 101, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman, European ice hockey champion.[120]
28
[edit]- Michael Behrens, 77, British financier, banker, stockbroker, and restaurant and gallery owner, co-owner of the Ionian Bank.
- Eugene Emond, 68, American officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Choekyi Gyaltsen, Panchen Lama, 50, Tibetan Buddhist leader, heart attack.[121]
- Halina Konopacka, 88, Polish discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist.
- Olli Puhakka, 72, Finnish Air Force ace in World War II.
- Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia, 80, Indian scholar and archaeologist.
- Marc Stevens, 45, American erotic performer, AIDS.
- Yoshimaro Yamashina, 88, Japanese ornithologist.[122]
29
[edit]- Federico Cantú Garza, 81, Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor.
- Mandel Kramer, 72, American actor and voice actor (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar).
30
[edit]- Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, 52, heir of the Spanish monarchy in the event of restoration, skiing accident.[123]
- Pegeen Fitzgerald, 84, American radio personality (The Fitzgeralds), breast cancer.[124]
- Jack George, 60, American NBA basketballer (Philadelphia Warriors, New York Knicks).[125]
- Friedrich Solmsen, 84, German-American philologist and professor of classical studies.[126]
31
[edit]- Yasushi Akutagawa, 63, Japanese composer and conductor.[127]
- Audrey Beecham, 73, English poet and historian, asthma.
- Jack Douglas, 80, American comedy writer.[128]
- Bob Dunn, 80, American cartoonist, entertainer and gagwriter.[129]
- Arthur Reginald Evans, 83, Australian coastwatcher, rescuer of JFK.[130]
- Fernando Gonçalves Namora, 69, Portuguese writer and medical doctor (Retalhos da Vida de um Médico).[131]
- William Stephenson, 92, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster (British Security Co-ordination).[132]
Unknown date
[edit]- Lewis Goram, 63, Scottish footballer (Bury F.C.).
- Leo Holzer, 86–87, Austrian-Czech firefighter and Holocaust survivor.
- Oliver Sipple, 47, American who prevented assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford.[133]
- Violet Winspear, 60, British romance author, cancer.
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- ^ Devi Dja Dies; Directed Asian Dance Troupes. New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
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