Deaths in December 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1989
[edit]1
[edit]- Alvin Ailey, 58, American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist, AIDS.[1]
- Leo Amino, 78, Japanese-American sculptor.[2]
- Danilo Atienza, 38, Filipino pilot in the Philippine Air Force, plane crash.
- André Charles Biéler, 93, Swiss-born Canadian painter.
- Billy Lyall, 36, Scottish singer, keyboard player and flautist with The Alan Parsons Project and the Bay City Rollers, AIDS.[3]
- Nikolai Patolichev, 81, Soviet politician, Soviet Minister of Trade.[4]
- Bill Stout, 62, American journalist, cardiac arrest.
- William Vandivert, 77, American photographer.
2
[edit]- Harland Bartholomew, 100, American civil engineer and urban planner, promoted racial segregation.[5]
- Norman Davis, 76, New Zealand-born professor of English language and literature.[6]
- Ruth Mary Reynolds, 73, American political and civil rights activist.[7]
- Richard Shannon, 69, American film and television actor.
3
[edit]- Sourou-Migan Apithy, 76, Beninese politician, president of Dahomey (Benin).[8]
- Connie B. Gay, 75, American country musician, cancer.[9]
- Fernando Martín, 27, Spanish NBL basketballer (Real Madrid, Spain), Spanish swimming champion, traffic collision.[10]
- Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi, 57, Pakistani religious leader.
- Alexander Obukhov, 71, Soviet physicist and applied mathematician (Monin–Obukhov length).[11]
- Paul Wei Ping-ao, 60, Chinese and Hong Kong actor.
- Nihal Silva, 35, Sri Lankan comedian and actor, shot.
4
[edit]- Émile Janssens, 87, Belgian colonial official and military officer.
- Elwyn Jones, 80, Welsh barrister (Moors murders, Nuremberg trials) and politician, Lord Chancellor, cancer.[12]
- Kathleen Manners, 95, English aristocrat, wife of John Manners.
- Angelo Ruggiero, 49, American mobster, member of Gambino crime family, cancer.[13]
- May Swenson, 76, American poet and playwright, heart attack.[14]
5
[edit]- Edoardo Amaldi, 81, Italian physicist (neutrino).[15]
- Nathan Huggins, 62, American historian and author, cancer.[16]
- Li Keran, 82, Chinese painter and art educator, heart attack.[17]
- John Pritchard, 71, English conductor, music director of the San Francisco Opera, lung cancer.[18]
- George Selden, 60, American author (The Cricket in Times Square), gastrointestinal hemorrhage.[19]
6
[edit]- Frances Bavier, 86, American actress (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D.), heart failure.[20]
- C. L. Dellums, 89, American labour activist, cardiac arrest.[21]
- Sammy Fain, 87, American composer and musician (I'll Be Seeing You), heart attack.[22]
- David Hardman, 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.[23]
- Marc Lépine, 25, Canadian mass murderer (École Polytechnique massacre), suicide.[24]
- John Payne, 77, American actor (Miracle on 34th Street, The Restless Gun), congestive heart failure.[25]
- Ćamil Sijarić, 75, Yugoslav novelist and short story writer, traffic collision.[26]
7
[edit]- William "Haystacks" Calhoun, 55, American professional wrestler.[27]
- Carlos DeLuna, 27, American convicted murderer, executed.[28]
- Phil Dokes, 34, American NFL football player (Buffalo Bills), heart failure.[29]
- Hans Hartung, 85, German-French abstract painter and soldier.[30]
- Stuart Novins, 75, American television journalist (CBS News), respiratory failure.[31]
- Werner Ranck, 85, Nazi German army general.[32]
- Sirima, 25, Sri Lankan-English singer, murdered.[33]
- Vadim Spiridonov, 45, Soviet film actor and director, heart failure.[34]
8
[edit]- Bruno Carette, 33, French humorist and comedian, leuco-encephalopathy.
- Szymon Datner, 87, Polish historian and Holocaust survivor.[35]
- Max Grundig, 81, German businessman, founder of Grundig.[36]
- Mykola Livytskyi, 82, Ukrainian politician, prime minister and president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile.
- Stanley Steingut, 69, American politician, speaker of the New York House Assembly, pneumonia.[37]
9
[edit]- Edward J. Bloustein, 64, American president of Rutgers University, heart attack.[38]
- William P. Ennis, 85, American general in the U.S. Army.[39]
- Basil Hayward, 61, English footballer and manager (Port Vale), heart attack.[40]
- Takeshi Kaikō, 58, Japanese novelist, short-story writer and television documentary writer, pneumonia.
- Doug Scovil, 62, American football player and coach, heart attack.[41]
- S. Somasundaram, 70, Indian vocalist.
- R. G. Springsteen, 85, American B movie and television director.[42]
- Sir John Wedgwood, 82, British politician.
10
[edit]- Sam Barkas, 79, English footballer and manager (Bradford City, England).[43]
- Frank Gulotta, 82, American judge, diabetes.[44]
- Huang Zhen, 80, Chinese politician, Chinese ambassador to Hungary, Indonesia and France.[45]
11
[edit]- Carlos Almaraz, 48, Mexican-born American artist, AIDS.[46]
- John Buxton, 76, British poet and ornithologist.[47]
- Lindsay Crosby, 51, American actor and singer, son of Bing Crosby, suicide.[48]
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 94, American photographer (Harper's Bazaar), pneumonia.[49]
- Howard Lang, English actor (The Onedin Line).
12
[edit]- Sid Colin, 74, English scriptwriter (The Army Game).[50]
- Helen Creighton, 90, Canadian folklorist and author.[51]
- Suihō Tagawa, 90, Japanese manga artist.[52]
13
[edit]- Sammy Lerner, 86, Romanian-born American film and musical songwriter, cancer.[53]
- Roderick Mackenzie, 85, Scottish soldier and peer.
14
[edit]- Reuben Bennett, 75, Scottish professional footballer and manager (Hull City).[54]
- Robert D. Blue, 91, American politician, governor of Iowa, stroke.[55]
- Narciso Busquets, 58, Mexican actor and voice-over, pulmonary emphysema.[56]
- Gerry Healy, 76, British political activist, leader of the Workers Revolutionary Party).[57]
- Seiichi Katsumata, 81, Japanese politician, Soviet spy, member of the House of Representatives.
- Jock Mahoney, 70, American actor and stuntman (The Range Rider), stroke.[58]
- Frederick Nolting, 78, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, cardio-pulmonary arrest.[59]
- Andrei Sakharov, 68, Soviet nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics, dilated cardiomyopathy.[60]
15
[edit]- Emile de Antonio, 70, American documentary director, heart attack.[61]
- Ben Barzman, 79, Canadian journalist, screenwriter and novelist (El Cid), stroke.[62]
- José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, 42, Colombian drug lord, leader of the Medellín Cartel, shot.[63]
- Charles Holland, 81, British road-racing cyclist and Olympic medalist.[64]
- Mikhail Kuznetsov, 76, Soviet flying ace.
- Philly Lutaaya, 38, Ugandan musician, AIDS.[65]
- Arnold Moss, 79, American actor, lung cancer.[66]
- Diptendu Pramanick, 79, Indian film personality.
- Ali Şen, 80, Turkish actor.[67]
- Edward Underdown, 81, English actor.[68]
16
[edit]- Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo, 48, Irish artist, road accident.
- Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, 76, Argentine racing driver, pancreatic cancer.
- Charlie Long, 51, American AFL football player (Boston Patriots).
- Silvana Mangano, 59, Italian film actress (The Verona Trial), lung cancer.[69]
- Gianni Poggi, 68, Italian tenor.[70]
- Aileen Pringle, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress.[71]
- Lee Van Cleef, 64, American actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), heart attack.[72]
- Robert Smith Vance, 58, American judge, assassinated.[73]
- Marjorie Westbury, 84, English radio actress and singer.
- Priscilla White, 89, American diabetes researcher, heart attack.[74]
17
[edit]- Edward Boyd, 72–73, Scottish writer.[75]
- Ghalib Halasa, 57, Jordanian novelist and short story writer.
- Josephine Hill, 90, American silent-screen actress.
- Luciano Salce, 67, Italian film director and actor, myocardial infarction.[76]
- Albert Coady Wedemeyer, 93, American Army general.[77]
- William Wiswesser, 75, American chemist (Wiswesser line notation).[78]
18
[edit]- Ewen Bain, 64, Scottish cartoonist (Angus Og), influenza.[79]
- Brad Beckman, 24, American NFL football player (New York Giants), traffic collision.[80]
- Bobby Capó, 67, Puerto Rican musician, heart attack.[81]
- Sir George Harvie-Watt, 86, British barrister and politician, Member of Parliament.
- Sydney Irving, 71, British politician.
- Louise Little, early 90s, Grenadian-born American activist, mother of Malcolm X.
- Robert E. Robinson, 42, American attorney and council member, murdered.[82]
- William Saltonstall, 84, American educator, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.[83]
- Stanley Senanayake, 72, Sri Lankan police officer, Inspector General of the Sri Lanka Police.[84]
19
[edit]- Herbert Blaize, 71, Grenadian politician, prime minister of Grenada, prostate cancer.[85]
- Abdul Jalil Choudhury, 63–64, Bengali Deobandi Islamic scholar and politician, member of Assam Legislative Assembly.
- Audrey Christie, 77, American actress, singer and dancer, emphysema.[86]
- Lois Darling, 72, American author and illustrator.[87]
- Barthold Fles, 87, Dutch-born American literary agent and author, diabetes.[88]
- Stella Gibbons, 87, English author, journalist and poet.[89]
- John Heddle, 46, British politician, suicide.[90]
- Floyd Jones, 72, American blues musician (On the Road Again), heart failure.[91]
- Óndra Łysohorsky, 84, Czechoslovakian poet.[92]
- Kirill Mazurov, 75, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia.[93]
- Georges Rouquier, 80, French film director, screenwriter and actor.[94]
- Henry Theel, 72, Finnish singer.
20
[edit]- Kurt Böhme, 81, German bass.[95]
- Gentry Crowell, 57, American politician, Tennessee Secretary of State, suicide.[96]
- Jiro Harada, 95, Japanese army general.[97]
- Donald L. McFaul, 32, United States Navy SEAL, killed in U.S. invasion of Panama.[98]
21
[edit]- Ján Cikker, 78, Czechoslovakian composer.[99]
- Sir Hugh Elliott, 76, British ornithologist, conservationist and hereditary peer.[100]
- Rotimi Fani-Kayode, 34, Nigerian-born English photographer, AIDS.[101]
- Elsie Griffin, 94, English opera singer.[102]
- Harry Hibbs, 47, Canadian musician, cancer.[103]
- Inma de Santis, 30, Spanish actress, car accident.
- Ralph "Blackie" Schwamb, 63, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns) and convicted murderer.[104]
- Soedjatmoko, 67, Indonesian politician and diplomat, Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States, cardiac arrest.[105]
- Dwane Wallace, 78, American aircraft designer, president of Cessna.[106]
- Edmund Warwick, 82, British actor.
22
[edit]- Andrés do Barro, 42, Spanish singer-songwriter, liver cancer.
- Samuel Beckett, 83, Irish-French novelist, playwright and short story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature, emphysema.[107]
- Howard Bowen, 81, American economist, president of Grinnell College and the University of Iowa.[108]
- Theodore M. Burton, 82, American Mormon Genealogical Department director.[109]
- Giorgio Cavallon, 85, Italian-born American abstract artist.[110]
- Vasile Milea, 62, Romanian general and politician, Ministry of National Defence, suicide.[111]
- Massimo Serato, 73, Italian film actor (El Cid, The Sun Still Rises), heart attack.[112]
23
[edit]- Jeff Alexander, 79, American conductor, arranger and composer, cancer.[113]
- Peter Bennett, 72, British actor.
- John Cavendish, , 73, British politician (House of Lords).
- Milko Gaydarski, 43, Bulgarian international footballer and Olympic medalist (Levski Sofia, Bulgaria).[114]
- Clem Hawke, 91, Australian politician, father of Bob Hawke, stroke.[115]
- Shahzad Khalil, 44–45, Pakistani television director, heart attack.
- Lord Richard Percy, 68, English zoologist.
- Richard Rado, 83, German-born British mathematician (Erdős–Rado theorem).[116]
- Lennart Strandberg, 74, Swedish sprinter and Olympian.[117]
24
[edit]- Danny Huwé, 56, Belgian journalist, shot by sniper.[118]
- Charles Moore, 79, British hereditary peer, managing director of the Financial Times.[119]
- Ernest Nathan Morial, 60, American politician, Mayor of New Orleans, heart attack.[120]
- Roger Pigaut, 70, French actor and film director, cardiovascular disease.[121]
25
[edit]- Benny Binion, 85, American career criminal who established illegal gambling operations, heart failure.[122]
- Elena Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian politician, deputy Prime Minister of Romania, wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, executed.[123]
- Nicolae Ceaușescu, 71, Romanian politician, dictatorial president of Romania, executed.[124]
- Betty Garde, 84, American actress.[125]
- Türkan Hanımsultan, 70, Ottoman princess and chemical engineer, daughter of Enver Pasha.
- Frederick F. Houser, 85, American politician and judge, Lieutenant Governor of California, heart attack.[126]
- Billy Martin, 61, American Major League baseballer and manager (New York Yankees), traffic collision.[127]
- Riccardo Morandi, 87, Italian civil engineer, noted for his bridge designs.[128]
- Robert Pirosh, 79, American screenwriter and director (Battleground, Go for Broke!), heart failure.[129]
- Bo Randall, 80, American knifemaker, founded Randall Made Knives.[130]
- Wally Ris, 65, American swimmer, dual Olympic gold medalist and world record holder.[131]
- A. J. Seymour, 75, Guyanese poet, essayist, memoirist.[132]
26
[edit]- Lennox Berkeley, 86, English composer, respiratory infection.[133]
- Walter Bromley-Davenport, 86, British politician, Member of Parliament.[134]
- Sybil Cholmondeley, 95, British noblewoman and socialite, Chief Staff Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service.[135]
- Buck Crump, 85, Canadian president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.[136]
- Doug Harvey, 65, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), cirrhosis.[137]
- Paul Jennings, 71, English author.[138]
- K. P. Krishnakumar, 41, Indian sculptor and painter, suicide.[139]
- Maryon Pearson, 88, wife of Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada.[140]
- K. Shankar Pillai, 87, Indian cartoonist.
- Mohan Singh, 80, Indian army general and politician, cancer.[141]
- Peggy Thorpe-Bates, 75, English actress (Rumpole of the Bailey).
27
[edit]- Rodney Arismendi, 76, Uruguayan politician and political writer.[142]
- Kurt Baum, 89, Austro-Hungarian-born American singer (Metropolitan Opera).[143]
- Dada Amir Haider Khan, 89, Pakistani communist activist.
- Arthur Rhames, 32, American guitarist, tenor saxophonist and pianist, AIDS.[144]
- Walter Rose, 77, German footballer and manager (SpVgg Leipzig).[145]
- George William Weidler, 63, American saxophonist and songwriter, husband of Doris Day.
28
[edit]- Solomon Birnbaum, 98, Austro-Hungarian, British and Canadian expert in Yiddish linguistics and Hebrew paleography.[146]
- Marin Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian economist and diplomat, brother of Nicolae Ceaușescu, suicide.[147]
- Brian Coburn, 53, English actor who portrayed himself as Scottish.
- Earl Patrick Freeman, 57, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Pavel Kurochkin, 89, Soviet army general.
- Hermann Oberth, 95, Austro-Hungarian–born German physicist and rocket pioneer.[148]
- Ian Parry, 24, British photographer and photojournalist, plane crash.[149]
- Charles Rinker, 78, American lyricist.
- William Scott, 76, Northern Irish abstract painter, Alzheimer's disease.[150]
29
[edit]- Süreyya Ağaoğlu, 86, Azerbaijani-born Turkish writer and lawyer, cerebral hemorrhage.[151]
- Adrien Albert, 82, Australian medicinal chemist.[152]
- Scott Burton, 50, American sculptor, AIDS.[153]
- Saman Piyasiri Fernando, 31, Sri Lankan politician, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, murdered.[154]
- Hap Glaudi, 77, American sportscaster (WWL-TV), lung cancer.[155]
- Marion Keisker, 72, American record producer, first person to record Elvis Presley.[156]
- Saša Večtomov (born Alexandr Večtomov), 59, Czechoslovakian cellist, suicide.
- Bernard Lewis Welch, 77–78, British statistician (Welch's t-test), stroke.[157]
30
[edit]- Augusto Del Noce, 79, Italian philosopher and political thinker.[158]
- Paul-Henri Grauwin, 75, French army doctor.
- Etienne Leroux, 67, South African writer.[159]
- Esther McCoy, 85, American architectural historian and author, emphysema.[160]
- Yasuji Miyazaki, 73, Japanese swimmer and Olympian.[161]
- Madoline Thomas, 99, Welsh actress, complications from broken hip.
31
[edit]- Christia Adair, 96, American suffragist and civil rights activist.[162]
- Lilly Daché, 97, French-born American hatmaker.[163]
- Margaret Gordon, 50, British children's book illustrator (The Wombles).
- Ignatius Kilage, 48, Papua New Guinean politician, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.[164]
- Mihály Lantos, 61, Hungarian international footballer and manager (MTK Hungária FC, Hungary).[165]
- Francis B. Loomis Jr., 86, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Bendt Rothe, 68, Danish actor.[166]
- Gerhard Schröder, 79, West German politician.[167]
- Madhuri Singh, 66, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
Unknown date
[edit]- Martin Bartesch, 63, Romanian-born member of the SS (Mauthausen concentration camp).[168]
- Ruth Moore, 85–86, American writer.[169]
- Nora O'Mahoney, 76–77, Irish actress and lay missionary.
- Dietrich Prinz, 86, German-born computer science pioneer.
- Yem Sambaur, 76, Cambodian politician, prime minister of Cambodia.
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