Deaths in August 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1989

1

• Don Heffner, 78, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns).
• John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-born Canadian theatre director (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), AIDS.
• John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia.

2

• Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer and songwriter.

3

• Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer ("The Patriot Game"), pancreatic cancer.
• Antonia Brico, 87, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist.
• William Larimer Mellon Jr., 79, American philanthropist and physician, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Peggy Montgomery, 84, American silent-screen actress (Arizona Days).
• Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist (crystal dislocation).
• Colston Westbrook, 51, American teacher and linguist, cancer.

4

• Paolo Baffi, 77, Italian banker and economist, governor of the Bank of Italy.
• Amador Bendayán, 68, Venezuelan actor and entertainer (Sábado Sensacional).
• Maurice Colbourne, 49, English actor (Howards' Way), heart attack.
• Geoffrey Cross, 84, British barrister and judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
• Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist (Disney comics).
• Larry Parnes, 59, British pop manager, meningitis.
• Taghi Riahi, 78, Iranian officer in Iranian Imperial Army.
• W. Wallace Smith, 88, American grandson of Joseph Smith Jr., president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

5

• John Kinard, 52, American social activist and pastor, director of Anacostia Museum, myelofibrosis.
• John Larsen, 75, Norwegian rifle shooter and Olympic gold medalist.
• Max Macon, 73, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Helen Thomas, 22, Welsh peace activist (Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp), struck by police vehicle.
• Stacey Toran, 27, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Raiders), car accident.

6

• Hubert Beuve-Méry, 87, French journalist and newspaper editor (Le Monde), complications from a fall.
• Beattie Casely-Hayford, 67, Ghanaian founder of the National Dance Ensemble, director of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.
• Don Clark, 65, American footballer and coach (San Francisco 49ers), heart attack.
• Nat Levine, 90, American film producer (Mascot Pictures).
• P.R. Olgiati, 87, American politician, mayor of Chattanooga.
• Frank Sinkovitz, 66, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers) and umpire.

7

• Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, 73, Mexican politician, governor of Sinaloa.
• Gerhard de Kock, 63, South African Reserve Bank governor, colon cancer.
• Robert Jani, 55, American event producer, Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Mickey Leland, 44, American politician, anti-poverty activist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.
• Robert Stevens, 68, American television and movie director (Suspense), heart attack after beating.
• Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director, co-founder of Atelje 212, cancer.

8

• Irving Cottler, 71, American percussionist, heart attack.
• Robert Kaske, 68, American professor of medieval literature, brain tumour.
• Enrico Lorenzetti, 78, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, 250 cc World Championship winner.
• Brian Naylor, 66, British racing driver, boating accident.
• Bobby Oxspring, 70, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
• George Papp, 73, American comics artist (Superboy).
• Mary Peppin, 76, half of a British twin-sister piano duo act, piano teacher at Guildhall School of Music.
• Audrey Russell, 83, British BBC Radio journalist and war reporter, Alzheimer's disease.
• Maja Sacher, 93, Swiss art collector and philanthropist.
• Morris Shenker, 82, American lawyer, known for connection to Jimmy Hoffa, pneumonia.
• László Willinger, 80, German-born American photographer, heart failure.

9

• Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor.
• K. Gunaratnam, 72, Sri Lankan film producer, murdered.
• Duncan MacPherson, 23, Canadian ice hockey player, body found in melting glacier.
• Kathleen Maguire, 63, American actress (The Time of the Cuckoo, A Flame in the Wind), esophageal cancer.

10

• H. Montgomery Hyde, 81, Irish barrister, politician and author, Member of Parliament.
• George Ignatieff, 75, Russian-born Canadian diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations.
• Pierre Matisse, 89, French-born American art dealer.

11

• Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, 69–72, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan.
• Bill Cody Jr., 64, American child actor, suicide.
• Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• John Meillon, 55, Australian actor (Crocodile Dundee, The Fourth Wish), cirrhosis.
• Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist ("Late Freight").
• Richard Ward, 71, British army general, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong.

12

• Mo Anthoine, 50, British mountaineer, brain tumour.
• Emyr Estyn Evans, 84, Welsh geographer and archaeologist.
• Henri Goetz, 79, American-born French painter, member of the French Resistance.
• Samuel Okwaraji, 25, Nigerian international footballer (Nigeria), heart failure.
• William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (Shockley diode), eugenicist, prostate cancer.
• Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians).

13

• Willy De Bruyn, 75, Belgian trans-gender cyclist.
• Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentinian actor, director and tango singer (Las Aguas Bajan Turbias).
• Tim Richmond, 34, American race car driver, AIDS.
• Larkin I. Smith, 45, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.

14

• Robert Bernard Anderson, 79, American politician, secretary of the Navy and Treasury, throat cancer.
• Bergen (Belgin Sarılmışer), 31, Turkish singer, shot.
• Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer (Sacramento Kings), suicide.
• Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor.
• Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City.

15

• William Sydney Atkins, 87, English founder of Atkins engineering consultancy.
• Wolfram Eberhard, 80, German-born Turkish and American professor of sociology.
• Minoru Genda, 84, Japanese navy general noted for planning attack on Pearl Harbor, and politician.
• Elvy Kalep, 90, Estonian aviator, country's first female pilot.
• Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
• Earl B. Ruth, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of American Samoa.
• Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, 92, Greek army general, chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff, ambassador to Yugoslavia.

16

• Jean-Hilaire Aubame, 76, Gabonese politician, Foreign Minister of Gabon.
• Amanda Blake, 60, American actress (Gunsmoke), AIDS.
• Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist, pederast.
• Anton Nilson, 101, Swedish terrorist and convicted murderer.

17

• Jack Chrisman, 61, American drag racer.
• Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer and television presenter (Sooty).
• Stavro Skëndi, 83–84, Albanian-American linguist and historian, Parkinson's disease.
• Fred Frankhouse, 85, American Major League baseballer (Boston Braves).
• Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist.

18

• Robert Buckner, 83, American screenwriter and short story writer (Dodge City, Yankee Doodle Dandy).
• Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated.
• Yūji Koseki, 80, Japanese song and film score composer ("Roei no Uta", "The Bells of Nagasaki").
• Imre Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic gold medalist.
• Bert Oosterbosch, 32, Dutch racing cyclist, cardiac arrest.
• Waldemar Franklin Quintero, 48, Colombian police officer, commander of National Police, assassinated.
• Chrissie White, 94, British silent-screen actress (The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss), heart attack.

19

• Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense, governor of Negros and Siquijor Islands.
• Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer (Miami Dolphins), heart attack.
• Joseph A. Pechman, 71, American economist and taxation scholar, president of the American Economic Association, heart attack.

20

• George Adamson, 83, British wildlife conservationist and author in Kenya (Elsa the lioness), murdered.
• Clarence Glacken, 80, American professor of Geography.
• H. B. Halicki, 48, American director, stunt driver and actor (Gone in 60 Seconds), accident while filming.
• Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer (Laura).
• Tenryū Saburō, 85, Japanese sumo wrestler (Shunjuen Incident).
• Syd van der Vyver, 69, South African racing driver.

21

• William F. Bolger, 66, American Postmaster General, president of the Air Transport Association of America.
• Scott Fenton, 24, Australian NBL basketballer (Sydney Supersonics, Perth Wildcats), car crash.
• Heikki H. Herlin, 88, Finnish engineer, manager of Kone elevators.
• Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, 78, German geographer, explorer and writer.
• Raul Seixas, 44, Brazilian rock singer, songwriter and producer, cardiac arrest.
• Phyllis Terrell, 91, American suffragist and civil rights activist.
• Ted Wilks, 73, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals).

22

• Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, 85, British physician and politician.
• Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress (Mannequin in Red).
• Sunbeam Mitchell, 82, American businessman, hotel and nightclub owner, heart attack.
• Huey P. Newton, 47, American political activist, founder of the Black Panther party, probable murderer, murdered.
• Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician.
• Gerhard Reinhardt, 73, East German politician and German Resistance fighter.
• Vlasta Vraz, 89, Czech-American relief worker, editor and fundraiser.
• Diana Vreeland, 85, American fashion columnist and editor, editor in chief at Vogue, heart attack.

23

• Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, 45, Sudanese poet.
• P. O. Ackley, 86, American gunsmith.
• Al Cass, 65, American musician and musical inventor.
• Walter de Sousa, 68, Ugandan-born Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
• Katharina Jacob, 82, German member of the anti-Nazi German Resistance movement.
• R. D. Laing, 61, Scottish psychiatrist (psychosis, schizophrenia), heart attack.
• Nebojša Mitrić, 58, Yugoslavian sculptor and painter, suicide.

24

• Jacques Godechot, 82, French historian of the French Revolution.
• Marjorie Pratt, 89, British aristocrat.
• Feliks Topolski, 82, Polish-born British expressionist painter and draughtsman, official war artist.

25

• Gunnar Berg, 80, Swiss-born Danish composer.
• Jim Brideweser, 62, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox).
• Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor.
• Al Cherney, 56, Canadian fiddler, lung cancer.
• Yan Frenkel, 68, Ukrainian composer and performer.
• Jerry Masslo, 29, South African refugee.
• Sarjoo Pandey, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
• Roman Palester, 81, Polish composer of classical music.
• Jean-Louis Verdier, 54, French mathematician (Verdier duality), car accident.
• Bronwen Wallace, 44, Canadian poet and short story writer, cancer.
• A. J. Witono, 64, Indonesian military officer and diplomat, ambassador to Japan.

26

• Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet and writer.
• Juanita Brooks, 91, American historian and author, Alzheimer's disease.
• Nick Nuccio, 87, American politician, mayor of Tampa, Florida.
• Irving Stone, 86, American writer (Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy), heart failure.

27

• Gloria Milland, 48, Italian actress.
• Eckart Muthesius, 85, German architect and interior designer (Manik Bagh palace).
• Ramnandan Mishra, 83–84, Indian independence fighter.
• Burhan Shahidi, 94, Russian-born Chinese politician, governor of Xinjiang.
• Bill Shirley, 68, American tenor, actor and producer (Sleeping Beauty, My Fair Lady), lung cancer.

28

• Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist, CIA operative, lung cancer.
• Robert Macintosh, 91, New Zealand–born British anaesthetist.
• Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS.
• John Steptoe, 38, American author and illustrator for children’s books (Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters), AIDS.

29

• Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 66, Argentinian-born American fashion designer, lung cancer.
• Pua Kealoha, 86, Hawaiian-born American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
• Lorenzo Natali, 66, Italian politician, Minister of Public Works.
• Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist and Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack.

30

• Joe Collins, 66, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees).
• Joe de Santis, 80, American actor and sculptor (A Cold Wind in August), pulmonary disease.
• Seymour Krim, 67, American author, suicide.
• Dinkar Mehta, 81, Indian politician and trade unionist, leader of the Communist Party of India, mayor of Ahmedabad.
• Dink Roberts, 94, American banjo player.
• Dorothy Schiff, 86, American businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post.
• Ekkehard Tertsch, 83, Spanish-Austrian journalist and Nazi diplomat.

31

• Maribel Arrieta, 55, Salvadoran television host and model, Miss El Salvador, cancer.
• Michele Cascella, 96, Italian artist.
• Moe Dalitz, 89, American gangster, businessman and casino owner, heart and kidney failure.
• Mickey Hawks, 49, American singer and pianist ("Bip Bop Boom").
• Vladimir Littauer, 97, Russian and American horseback riding master and author.
• Claire Luce, 85, American actress, dancer and singer (Up the River, Under Secret Orders).
• Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox).
• Gerhard Scholz, 85, German professor and writer (Philology, German studies).
• Heen Banda Udurawana, 88, Sri Lankan politician, member of the Senate of Ceylon.
• Ruth Wood, 73, British racehorse owner, Epsom Derby winner.

Unknown date

• Bill Ainslie, 55, South African artist.
• Louis Dolivet, 81, Austro-Hungarian–born French film producer and alleged Soviet spy, editor of Free World.

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