Deaths in August 1989

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

August 1989

1

• José Cândido de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian writer.
• Don Heffner, 78, American Major League baseball player.
• Art Herchenratter, 71, Canadian NHL player.
• John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-born Canadian theatre director, AIDS.
• John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia.

2

• Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer and songwriter.
• Geraldine Knight Scott, 85, American landscape architect.

3

• Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer, 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.
• Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist.
• 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.
• Maurice Colbourne, 49, English actor, heart attack.
• Geoffrey Cross, 84, British barrister and judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
• Wayne LaMaster, 82, American MLB player.
• Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist.
• 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.
• Wilhelm Stasch, 78, German Olympic boxer.

5

• Toni Breder, 63, German Olympic long jumper.
• 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 baseball player.
• Helen Thomas, 22, Welsh peace activist, struck by police vehicle.
• Stacey Toran, 27, American NFL footballer, car accident.

6

• Hubert Beuve-Méry, 87, French journalist and newspaper editor, 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, heart attack.
• Nat Levine, 90, American film producer.
• P.R. Olgiati, 87, American politician, mayor of Chattanooga.
• William Scott, 86, English cricketer.
• Frank Sinkovitz, 66, American NFL footballer and umpire.
• Doc Zeigler, 93, American Negro Leagues baseball player.

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.
• Al Savill, 72, British-American banker and sports executive.
• Robert Stevens, 68, American television and movie director, heart attack after beating.
• Maria Thomas, 48, American writer, plane crash.
• Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director, co-founder of Atelje 212, cancer.

8

• André Cochinal, 84, French Olympic diver.
• Irving Cottler, 71, American percussionist, heart attack.
• Bob Harris, 74, American MLB player.
• 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.
• 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.
• Johnny Vardian, 67, American AAFC player.
• László Willinger, 80, German-born American photographer, heart failure.
• Franz Worisch, 63, Austrian Olympic diver.

9

• Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor.
• K. Gunaratnam, 72, Sri Lankan film producer, murdered.
• Don Nelson Laramore, 82, American judge.
• Duncan MacPherson, 23, Canadian ice hockey player, body found in melting glacier.
• Kathleen Maguire, 63, American actress, esophageal cancer.
• Albert Perikel, 76, Belgian cyclist.
• Philip Sidney Whitcombe, 95, English cricketer and British army officer.

10

• Tom Hughes, 82, American MLB player.
• 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.
• Goldup Davies, 75, British Olympic swimmer.
• Léo Kemner Laflamme, 95, American-born Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• John Meillon, 55, Australian actor, cirrhosis.
• Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist.
• Richard Ward, 71, British army general, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong.
• Hans Zeier, 90, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier.

12

• Mo Anthoine, 50, British mountaineer, brain tumour.
• Wilfred Burne, 86, British Olympic diver.
• 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, heart failure.
• Max Scott, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, eugenicist, prostate cancer.
• Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress.

13

• Anton Cadar, 48, Romanian Olympic gymnast.
• Willy De Bruyn, 75, Belgian trans-gender cyclist.
• Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentinian actor, director and tango singer.
• 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, 31, Turkish singer, shot.
• Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer, suicide.
• Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor.
• Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City.
• Ossie Wiberg, 84, American NFL player.

15

• Sir William 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.
• Mitsuneyama Keiji, 67, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
• Dorothea Leighton, 80, American social psychiatrist.
• Jussi Nordqvist, 72, Finnish Olympic sports shooter.
• Anton Richter, 77, Austrian Olympic weightlifter.
• 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, AIDS.
• Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist, pederast.
• Milt Halliday, 82, Canadian NHL player.
• Anton Nilson, 101, Swedish terrorist and convicted murderer.
• Erasmo Vera, 66, Chilean footballer.

17

• Richard Bryant, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Jack Chrisman, 61, American drag racer.
• Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer and television presenter.
• Stavro Skëndi, 83–84, Albanian-American linguist and historian, Parkinson's disease.
• Fred Frankhouse, 85, American Major League baseball player.
• Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist.

18

• Robert Buckner, 83, American screenwriter and short story writer.
• Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated.
• Claude Kietzman, 71, South African Olympic rower.
• Yūji Koseki, 80, Japanese song and film score composer.
• 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, heart attack.

19

• Ernst van den Berg, 73, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Ivan Lindgren, 83, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense, governor of Negros and Siquijor Islands.
• Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer, 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, murdered.
• Clarence Glacken, 80, American professor of Geography.
• H. B. Halicki, 48, American director, stunt driver and actor, accident while filming.
• Tom Hayward, 76, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer.
• Tenryū Saburō, 85, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Chuck Tollefson, 72, American NFL player.
• 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.
• William Danielsen, 73, Norwegian footballer.
• Scott Fenton, 24, Australian NBL basketballer, 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 baseball player.

22

• Stefan Ciapała, 66, Polish Olympic bobsledder.
• Robert Grondelaers, 56, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, 85, British physician and politician.
• Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress.
• 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.
• Erik Almgren, 81, Swedish Olympic footballer.
• 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, heart attack.
• Nebojša Mitrić, 58, Yugoslavian sculptor and painter, suicide.

24

• Jacques Godechot, 82, French historian of the French Revolution.
• Dan Hill, 72, American college football player.
• 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 baseball player.
• Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor.
• Al Cherney, 56, Canadian fiddler, lung cancer.
• Yan Frenkel, 68, Ukrainian composer and performer.
• Frank Henry, 79, American army officer and Olympic equestrian.
• Herbert Loper, 92, American army officer.
• 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, 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.
• Patrick Connor, 83, Irish politician.
• Jorge Franco, 65, Portuguese Olympic fencer.
• Raffaello Gambino, 61, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Nick Nuccio, 87, American politician, mayor of Tampa, Florida.
• Irving Stone, 86, American writer, heart failure.

27

• Brendan A. Burns, 94, American army officer.
• Hal Kelleher, 75, American MLB player.
• Gloria Milland, 48, Italian actress.
• Eckart Muthesius, 85, German architect and interior designer.
• 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, lung cancer.

28

• Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist, CIA operative, lung cancer.
• Håkon Askerød, 79, Norwegian footballer.
• Milan Ljubenović, 57, Yugoslavian footballer.
• Robert Macintosh, 91, New Zealand–born British anaesthetist.
• Alex Moore, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS.
• Charles Sheaffer, 84, American Olympic field hockey player.
• John Steptoe, 38, American author and illustrator for children's books, AIDS.
• Fred Waters, 62, American MLB player.
• Gerald Joseph Weber, 75, American district judge.
• Karl-Heinz Wegmann, 55, German Olympic shot putter.

29

• Buddy Dear, 83, American MLB player.
• 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.
• Sir Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist and Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack.

30

• Max Ballantyne, 45, Australian rules footballer.
• Buddy Burbage, 82, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
• Joe Collins, 66, American Major League baseball player.
• Joe de Santis, 80, American actor and sculptor, 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.
• Gordon Lethborg, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Vladimir Littauer, 97, Russian and American horseback riding master and author.
• Lou Louden, 70, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
• Claire Luce, 85, American actress, dancer and singer.
• Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major League baseball player.
• Don Rainsford, 51, Australian rules footballer.
• Gerhard Scholz, 85, German professor and writer.
• 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.