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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1989
1
2
Paola Barbara , 77, Italian film actress.
Aubrey Boomer , 91, American golfer, stroke.
Vittorio Caprioli , 68, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, heart attack.
Cousin Joe , 81, American blues and jazz singer.
3
Bahadur Khan , 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer.
Del Wood , 69, American pianist, stroke.
Norman Yardley , 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke.
4
5
6
Bette Davis , 81, American actress, cancer.
[4]
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze , 69, French actor, critic, screenwriter and director, ruptured aneurysm.
Paul Henry , 77, Belgian footballer.
Robert Poulet , 96, Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist.
Reinhard Seiler , 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe Major and ace.
7
Keith Elliott , 73, New Zealand soldier, cancer.
Abe Landa , 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Forrest McPherson , 77, American NFL footballer.
Aleksanteri Saarvala , 76, Finnish gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
8
Oscar Moglia , 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist.
9
Ernst Andersson , 80, Swedish international footballer.
Yusuf Atılgan , 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack.
James Chabot , 62, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
Herman Clark , 58, American NFL footballer.
Alan Hulme , 82, Australian politician, Postmaster-General of Australia.
Hassan Poladi , 44, Indian-American writer, liver failure.
10
11
Roberts Dunstan , 66, Australian politician, soldier and aviator during the Second World War.
Percival Goodman , 85, American urban theorist and architect.
[5]
M. King Hubbert , 86, American geologist and geophysicist, pulmonary embolism.
[6]
Paul Shenar , 53, American actor and theatre director, AIDS.
12
Carmen Cavallaro , 76, American pianist, prostate cancer.
Joe Foy , 46, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
[7]
Franco Luambo , 51, Congolese musician, AIDS.
Sim Var , 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
Jay Ward , 69, American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows, renal cancer.
[8]
N. V. Krishna Warrier , 73, Indian poet, journalist and scholar.
13
Fred Agabashian , 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.
Lud Gluskin , 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
Merab Kostava , 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash.
[9]
Patrick McAuliffe , 75, Irish Labour Party politician.
Giuseppe Palmieri , 87, Italian Olympic high jumper and javelin thrower.
Cesare Zavattini , 87, Italian screenwriter.
[10]
14
15
James Lee Barrett , 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
Giuseppe Gandini , 89, Italian international footballer.
Paul Georgescu , 65, Romanian literary critic, journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure.
Tadevos Hakobyan , 72, Armenian historian and geographer.
Danilo Kiš , 54, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, lung cancer.
Scott O'Dell , 91, American children's writer, prostate cancer.
Michał Rola-Żymierski , 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland.
16
Walter Farley , 74, American author, cancer.
[12]
Frederick Millar , 89, British diplomat, British Ambassador to West Germany.
Mário Vianna , 87, Brazilian football referee, pneumonia.
Cornel Wilde , 77, Hungarian-born American actor, leukemia.
[13]
17
John J. Anderson , 32, American writer and editor on computing and technology, building collapse in earthquake.
Jack Beynon , 76, American football player.
Mark Krein , 82, Soviet mathematician.
Cyril Mathew , 77, Sri Lankan politician.
[14]
R. A. B. Mynors , 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident.
18
19
Eric Dixon , 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist, composer and arranger.
Albert Geldard , 75, English international footballer.
Alan Murphy , 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
Salim Nasir , 44, Pakistani film and TV actor, heart attack.
20
21
Jean Image , 78, Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films.
Bud Marquardt , 75, Canadian footballer.
22
Ewan MacColl , 74, British folk singer, songwriter, political activist and actor, complications following heart surgery.
Tony Manero , 84, American golfer.
Roland Winters , 84, American actor, stroke.
[16]
23
Edmund E. Anderson , 83, American automotive designer.
Armida , 78, Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian, heart attack.
Bert Hyde , 82, Australian rules footballer.
Clive Lewington , 69, Australian rules footballer.
24
Dean Alfange , 91, American politician, Deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer.
[17]
General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor , 73, Indian Army officer.
Ralph Chase , 86, American NFL footballer.
Jerzy Kukuczka , 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain.
Sahib Shihab , 64, American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer.
Sam Smith , 62–63, English rugby league footballer and World Cup winner.
Doris Huestis Speirs , 95, Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet.
25
26
Don Bass , 33, American NFL footballer, shot.
Charles J. Pedersen , 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
[19]
Gordon Reid , 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer.
Anders Rydberg , 86, Swedish footballer.
Kumeko Urabe , 87, Japanese movie actress, burns.
27
28
Laurent Di Lorto , 80, French international footballer.
Darel Dieringer , 63, American professional stock car racing driver.
Henry Hall , 91, English bandleader.
Louise Hay , 54, French-born American mathematician, breast cancer.
Liam Redmond , 76, Irish stage, film and television actor.
Yuliya Solntseva , 88, Soviet actress and film director.
Kateb Yacine , 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays.
[21]
29
30
Theodore Roosevelt Dalton , 88, American attorney and U.S. district judge, complications from pneumonia.
[22]
Ingeborg Refling Hagen , 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director.
Aristid Lindenmayer , 63, Hungarian biologist.
Yisrael Spira , 99, Holocaust survivor.
Pedro Vargas , 83, Mexican tenor and actor, complications from diabetes.
[23]
31
Conrad Beck , 88, Swiss composer.
Washington Saldías Fuentealba , 62, Chilean politician, Mayor of Pichilemu.
Elliott Loughlin , 79, American U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
Francesc Miró-Sans , 73, Spanish businessman and president of FC Barcelona.
Roger Scott , 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer.
Unknown date
Wilgar Campbell , 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness.
Francis J. Love , 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
References
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"Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish Conductor, Dies" .
The New York Times . October 3, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ Constance L. Hays (October 5, 1989).
"Graham Chapman, 48, Comedy Troupe Founder" .
The New York Times . p. B 22. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Robert Ashmore, 85, Former Congressman" .
The New York Times . October 7, 1989. p. 1 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ Albin Krebs (October 8, 1989).
"Bette Davis, a Queen of Hollywood, Dies at 81" .
The New York Times . p. 1 1. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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Paul Goldberger (October 12, 1989).
"Percival Goodman, 85, Synagogue Designer, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. B 12. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ Alfonso A. Narvaez (October 17, 1989).
"M. King Hubbert, 86, Geologist; Research Changed Oil Production" .
The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Joe Foy, Baseball Player, 46" .
The New York Times . October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ Andrew L. Yarrow (October 14, 1989).
"JAY WARD, 69, THE TV CARTOONIST WHO CREATED BULLWINKLE, IS DEAD" .
The New York Times . p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Merab Kostava, 50, a Soviet Rights Figure" .
The New York Times . October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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Kevin Sack (October 16, 1989).
"Cesare Zavattini, 87, Screenwriter Who Worked With De Sica, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. D 15. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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Eric Pace (November 2, 1989).
"Martin Broszat, German Historian And War Crimes Expert, 63, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. B 21. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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Albert Scardino (October 18, 1989).
"Walter Farley, 74, A Writer of a Series On a Black Stallion" .
The New York Times . p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ Peter B. Flint (October 17, 1989).
"Cornel Wilde, 74, a Performer and Film Producer" .
The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Cyril Mathew, Sri Lanka Politician, 77" .
The New York Times . October 18, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ Glenn Collins (October 21, 1989).
"Sir Anthony Quayle, British Actor And Theater Director, Dies at 76" .
The New York Times . p. 1 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Roland Winters, 84; Played Charlie Chan" .
The New York Times . October 25, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ Glenn Fowler (October 27, 1989).
"Dean Alfange, Liberal Leader, Is Dead at 91" .
The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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Michiko Kakutani (October 26, 1989).
"Mary McCarthy, 77, Is Dead; Novelist, Memoirist and Critic" .
The New York Times . p. A 1. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
^ John T. McQuiston (October 27, 1989).
"Charles Pedersen, 85, Nobel Winner in Chemistry" .
The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Alfred Wilson, 85, 1924 Olympic Medalist" .
The New York Times . October 28, 1989. p. 1 11. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Kateb Yacine, Novelist And Poet, Is Dead at 60" .
The New York Times . October 31, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Ted Dalton, 88, Dies; Retired Federal Judge" .
The New York Times . November 2, 1989. p. B 21. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .
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"Pedro Vargas, a Mexican Singer And Film Performer, Is Dead at 85" .
The New York Times . October 31, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024 .