Deaths in June 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1989
[edit]1
[edit]- Dharmasena Attygalle, 64, Sri Lankan politician.
- Niels Bertelsen, 63, Danish Olympic boxer (1952).
- Clay Campbell, 88, American film makeup artist.
- Robert L. Chidlaw-Roberts, 93, Welsh WWI flying ace.
- Bernard Fauqueux, 50, French Olympic gymnast (1960, 1964).
- Emery Hawkins, 77, American animator.
- Aurelio Lampredi, 71, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer.
- Alexis Lichine, 75, Russian wine writer and entrepreneur.[1]
- Edward J. McShane, 85, American mathematician, congestive heart failure.
- Charles Vanden Wouwer, 72, English-Belgian international footballer.
2
[edit]- Guido Agosti, 87, Italian pianist and piano teacher.
- Smith Barrier, 72, American sports journalist.
- Ted à Beckett, 81, Australian test cricketer.
- Juan Inostroza, 46, Chilean Olympic fencer (1976).
- Dick Mayer, 64, American professional golfer.
- Frederic Prokosch, 83, American writer.[2]
- Takeo Watanabe, 56, Japanese musician and composer.
3
[edit]- Shirley Burden, 80, American writer and photographer.[3]
- Omer De Bruycker, 83, Belgian racing cyclist.
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86 or 89, Iranian religious leader, Supreme Leader of Iran, heart attack.
- Frank Laming, 80, Scottish Anglican priest.
- Wynne Samuel, 77, Welsh politician.
4
[edit]- Dik Browne, 71, American cartoonist, cancer.[4][5]
- Cecil Collins, 81, English painter and printmaker.
- Bernard Considine, 64, Australian rules footballer and cricketer.
- Vernon Cracknell, 77, New Zealand politician.
- Franca Helg, 69, Italian designer and architect.
- Charles Henry, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1957).
5
[edit]- Ernie Barber, 75, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).
- Baby Huwae, 49, Dutch-Indonesian actress, model and singer.
- André Michel, 81, French film director and screenwriter.
- Maurice Philippe, 57, British aircraft and Formula One car designer.
6
[edit]- Whitey Glazner, 95, American MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies).
- Richard P. Graves, 82, American director of the League of California Cities.
- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, 83, British economist.
- Michael O'Farrell, 40, American vice-president of Oakland Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, murdered.
- Ernest John Primeau, 79, American Roman Catholic bishop.
- Laxman Singh, 81, Indian last ruling Maharawal (Maharaja) of the state of Dungarpur.
7
[edit]- Evan Peter Aurand, 71, American naval officer.
- Donn Beach, 82, American adventurer, businessman and World War II veteran, liver cancer.[6]
- Jorge Córdova, 76, Chilean international footballer.
- Jim Cristy, 76, American swimmer and Olympic medalist (1932, 1936), financial manager for the Updike Company.
- William McLean Hamilton, 70, Canadian politician.
- Chico Landi, 81, Brazilian Formula One racing driver.
- Nara Leão, 47, Brazilian singer, brain tumour.[7]
- Paulo Leminski, 74, Brazilian writer, poet and journalist, liver cirrhosis.
- David Peregrine, 34, Canadian dancer and actor, plane crash.[8]
- George Roughton, 79, English footballer.
- Jane Weiller, 77, American golfer.
- Notable Dutch-Surinamese football players killed in Surinam Airways Flight 764:[9]
- Ruud Degenaar, 25, Heracles Almelo
- Lloyd Doesburg, 29, AFC Ajax
- Steve van Dorpel, 23, FC Volendam
- Wendel Fräser, 22, RBC Roosendaal
- Frits Goodings, 25, FC Wageningen
- Jerry Haatrecht, 28, Neerlandia
- Virgall Joemankhan, 20, Cercle Brugge
- Andro Knel, 21, NAC Breda
- Ruben Kogeldans, 22, Willem II Tilburg
- Fred Patrick, 23, PEC Zwolle
- Andy Scharmin, 21, FC Twente
- Nick Stienstra, 34, RC Heemstede
- Elfried Veldman, 23, De Graafschap
- Florian Vijent, 27, Telstar
8
[edit]- Bibb Falk, 90, American Major League baseballer.[10]
- Albert Spaggiari, 56, French criminal.[11]
- Emil Verban, 73, American Major League baseballer.[12]
9
[edit]- George Beadle, 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[13]
- Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor.[14]
- Norman Brearley, 98, Australian commercial and military pilot, pioneer of Australian airline industry.
- James Horstead, 91, Anglican bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa.
- Vladimir Kasatonov, 78, Soviet military leader and fleet admiral.
- Huang Yan, 76, Chinese politician.
- José López Rega, 72, Argentine politician, Minister of Social Welfare, diabetes.[15][16]
- Wolfdietrich Schnurre, 68, German writer, heart failure.
- Piotr Vasiliev, 80, Soviet realist painter.
10
[edit]- Eric Clavering, 88, British-Canadian actor.
- Basil Gray, 84–85, English art historian, Islamicist and author, head of the British Museum's Oriental department.[17]
- James Greenway, 86, American ornithologist.
- Martin Kottler, 79, American NFL footballer.
- Ortwin Linger, 21, Dutch-Surinamese football player (HFC Haarlem), injuries from plane crash.
- Juan Bustillo Oro, 85, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Richard Quine, 68, American actor, director and singer, suicide by shooting.[18]
- Suleyman Rustam, 83, Soviet poet, playwright and translator.
- Joe Stripp, 86, American Major League baseballer.
11
[edit]- Ronald Eric Bishop, 86, British engineer, chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito.[19]
- Lloyd Cheatham, 70, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, New York Yankees).
- Jack McMahon, 60, American NBA basketballer and coach.
- Jim Williams, 60, American college football coach.
12
[edit]- Guy Crossman, 73, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1972).
- Eduardo Dualde, 55, Spanish hockey player and Olympic medalist (1960, 1964).
- Nilufer Hanımsultan, 73, Ottoman princess.
- Lou Monte, 72, Italian-American singer.
13
[edit]- Fran Allison, 81, American television and radio personality, myelodysplasia.[20]
- William Grasso, Italian-American mobster, murdered.
- Ray Sherry, 64, Australian politician, member of the Australian Parliament.
- Howard Simons, 60, American editor of Washington Post at time of the Watergate scandal, pancreatic cancer.[21]
14
[edit]- Dame Zara Bate, 80, Australian fashion entrepreneur, wife of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.
- Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1965).
- Christopher Bernau, 49, American actor.
- Pat Capri, 70, American MLB player (Boston Braves).
- Pete de Freitas, 27, English musician and producer, motorcycle accident.
- Wei Guoqing, 75, Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar.
- Heber Austin Ladner, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Mississippi, heart disease.
- Joseph Malula, 71, Congolese archbishop and cardinal.[22]
- Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, 87, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.
15
[edit]- Geoffrey Alexander, 68, British television actor.
- Maurice Bellemare, 77, Canadian politician, diabetes.
- Roberto Camardiel, 71, Spanish theatre director and actor, bone disease.
- Victor French, 54, American actor and director, lung cancer.[23]
- Judy Johnson, 89, American Negro League baseballer.[24]
- Ray McAnally, 63, Irish actor, heart attack.[25]
- Luis Ricceri, 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest.
16
[edit]- Miloslav Bednařík, 24, Czechoslovakian Olympic sports shooter (1988).
- Helga Haase, 55, East German speed skater and Olympic gold medalist (1960, 1964).
- Arthur Häggblad, 80, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (1936).
- Celia Lynch, 81, Irish politician.
- Antonio Román, 77, Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
- John Westbrook, 66, English actor.
17
[edit]- S. David Griggs, 49, United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut.
- John Matuszak, 38, American football player and actor, accidental overdose.[26]
- Pat Parker, 45, American poet and activist, breast cancer.
18
[edit]- Ennio Balbo, 67, Italian film, television and voice actor.
- Paulo Cavalheiro, 55, Brazilian Olympic boxer (1952).
- Bobby Cross, 57, American NFL footballer.
- George C. Pimentel, 67, American chemist and researcher, intestinal cancer.[27]
- I. F. Stone, 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack.[28]
19
[edit]- Betti Alver, 82, Estonian poet.
- Yevgeny Kabanov, 70, Soviet Naval Aviation major general.
- Andrey Prokofyev, 30, Soviet sprinter and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.
20
[edit]- Kató Bárczy, 68, Hungarian actress.
- Phyllis Barrington, 85, American actress.
- Dona Drake, 74, American singer, dancer and film actress, pneumonia.
- José María Querejeta, 70, Spanish footballer
21
[edit]- Ron Bailey, 75, Australian international rugby league footballer.
- Lee Calhoun, 56, American hurdler, dual Olympic gold medalist (1956, 1960).[29]
- Vernon Grimshaw, 73, English cricketer.
- Aleksandr Safronov, 36, Soviet speed skater and Olympian.
- Edmond Sollberger, 68, Turkish-Swiss–British museum curator, scholar of the Sumerian language.
22
[edit]- Anton Dermota, 79, Slovene lyric tenor.[30]
- William Fletcher-Vane, 80, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
- Robert Körner, 64, Austrian international footballer.
- Henri Sauguet, 88, French composer.[31]
- Isaac Starr, 94, American physician, heart disease specialist and clinical epidemiologist.[32]
23
[edit]- Michel Aflaq, 79, Syrian philosopher and Arab nationalist, complications from heart surgery.[33]
- Rick Anderson, 35, American MLB player (New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners).
- Werner Best, 85, German Nazi Party leader, organiser of the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads.[34]
- Timothy Manning, 79, Irish-American Roman Catholic archbishop.[35]
24
[edit]- Geoffrey Cradock-Watson, 80, English cricketer and aviator.
- Svend Aage Eriksen, 80, Danish footballer.
- Russell Meiggs, 86, British ancient historian.
- Hibari Misora, 52, Japanese singer and actress.[36]
- Ghulam Raziq, 56, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian.
- Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia, 81, Russian-American nephew of Tsar Nicholas II.[37]
25
[edit]- Idris Cox, 89, Welsh communist activist and newspaper editor.
- M. A. Daniel, 35, Sri Lankan politician, murdered.
- Graham Hamilton, 49, Australian Olympic swimmer (1956).
26
[edit]- Howard Charles Green, 93, Canadian federal politician.
- Walter Ralston Martin, 60, American Baptist Christian minister and author.
- Inger Stender, 76, Danish actress of stage, film and television.
27
[edit]- Sir Alfred Ayer, 78, English philosopher.[38]
- Fritz Bleiweiß, 77, German Olympic racewalker (1936).
- Jack Buetel, 73, American film and television actor.[39]
- Dorothy Bullitt, 97, American businesswoman and philanthropist.
- Michele Lupo, 56, Italian film director.[40]
- Gregory McMahon, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Stevan Vilotić, 63, Yugoslav footballer and manager.
28
[edit]- Karl Bendetsen, 81, American politician and military officer, U.S. Under Secretary of the Army.
- Alan Duff, 51, English cricketer.
- Joris Ivens, 90, Dutch documentary filmmaker.[41]
- Mike Sebastian, 79, American NFL footballer.
29
[edit]- Keith Chapman, 43, American concert organist (Wanamaker Organ), plane crash.[42]
- Kazuo Mori, 78, Japanese film director
30
[edit]- Hilmar Baunsgaard, 69, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark.[43]
- John Bloomfield, 87, Australian politician.
- Jim Dewar, 67, American footballer.
- Rostislav Plyatt, 80, Russian stage and film actor.
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