# 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
### 1

* Dharmasena Attygalle, 64, Sri Lankan politician.
* Emery Hawkins, 77, American animator.
* Aurelio Lampredi, 71, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer.
* Alexis Lichine, 75, Russian wine writer and entrepreneur.
* Edward J. McShane, 85, American mathematician, congestive heart failure.
* Charles Vanden Wouwer, 72, English-Belgian international footballer.

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* Guido Agosti, 87, Italian pianist and piano teacher.
* Smith Barrier, 72, American sports journalist.
* Ted à Beckett, 81, Australian test cricketer.
* Dick Mayer, 64, American professional golfer.
* Frederic Prokosch, 83, American writer.
* Takeo Watanabe, 56, Japanese musician and composer.

### 3

* 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

* Dik Browne, 71, American cartoonist, cancer.
* Cecil Collins, 81, English painter and printmaker.
* Vernon Cracknell, 77, New Zealand politician.
* Franca Helg, 69, Italian designer and architect.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* Donn Beach, 82, American adventurer, businessman and World War II veteran, liver cancer.
* Jorge Córdova, 76, Chilean international footballer.
* Jim Cristy, 76, American swimmer and Olympic medalist, 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.
* Paulo Leminski, 74, Brazilian writer, poet and journalist, liver cirrhosis.
* George Roughton, 79, English footballer.
* Jane Weiller, 77, American golfer.

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* Bibb Falk, 90, American Major League baseballer.
* Albert Spaggiari, 56, French criminal.
* Emil Verban, 73, American Major League baseballer.

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* George Beadle, 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
* Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor.
* 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.
* Wolfdietrich Schnurre, 68, German writer, heart failure.
* Piotr Vasiliev, 80, Soviet realist painter.

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* Basil Gray, 84–85, English art historian, Islamicist and author, head of the British Museum's Oriental department.
* James Greenway, 86, American ornithologist.
* Martin Kottler, 79, American NFL footballer.
* Juan Bustillo Oro, 85, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
* Richard Quine, 68, American actor, director and singer, suicide by shooting.
* Suleyman Rustam, 83, Soviet poet, playwright and translator.
* Joe Stripp, 86, American Major League baseballer.

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* Ronald Eric Bishop, 86, British engineer, chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito.
* Jack McMahon, 60, American NBA basketballer and coach.

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* Eduardo Dualde, 55, Spanish hockey player and Olympic medalist.
* Nilufer Hanımsultan, 73, Ottoman princess.
* Lou Monte, 72, Italian-American singer.

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* Fran Allison, 81, American television and radio personality, myelodysplasia.
* 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.

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* Dame Zara Bate, 80, Australian fashion entrepreneur, wife of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.
* 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.
* Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, 87, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.

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* 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.
* Judy Johnson, 89, American Negro League baseballer.
* Ray McAnally, 63, Irish actor, heart attack.
* Luis Ricceri, 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest.

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* Helga Haase, 55, East German speed skater and Olympic gold medalist.
* Celia Lynch, 81, Irish politician.
* Antonio Román, 77, Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
* John Westbrook, 66, English actor.

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* S. David Griggs, 49, United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut.
* John Matuszak, 38, American football player and actor, accidental overdose.
* Pat Parker, 45, American poet and activist, breast cancer.

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* Ennio Balbo, 67, Italian film, television and voice actor.
* Bobby Cross, 57, American NFL footballer.
* George C. Pimentel, 67, American chemist and researcher, intestinal cancer.
* I. F. Stone, 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack.

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* Betti Alver, 82, Estonian poet.
* Yevgeny Kabanov, 70, Soviet Naval Aviation major general.
* Andrey Prokofyev, 30, Soviet sprinter and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.

### 20

* Dona Drake, 74, American singer, dancer and film actress, pneumonia.

### 21

* Ron Bailey, 75, Australian international rugby league footballer.
* Lee Calhoun, 56, American hurdler, dual Olympic gold medalist.
* Aleksandr Safronov, 36, Soviet speed skater and Olympian.
* Edmond Sollberger, 68, Turkish-Swiss–British museum curator, scholar of the Sumerian language.

### 22

* Anton Dermota, 79, Slovene lyric tenor.
* William Fletcher-Vane, 80, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
* Robert Körner, 64, Austrian international footballer.
* Henri Sauguet, 88, French composer.
* Isaac Starr, 94, American physician, heart disease specialist and clinical epidemiologist.

### 23

* Michel Aflaq, 79, Syrian philosopher and Arab nationalist, complications from heart surgery.
* Werner Best, 85, German Nazi Party leader, organiser of the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads.
* Timothy Manning, 79, Irish-American Roman Catholic archbishop.

### 24

* Russell Meiggs, 86, British ancient historian.
* Hibari Misora, 52, Japanese singer and actress.
* Ghulam Raziq, 56, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian.
* Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia, 81, Russian-American nephew of Tsar Nicholas II.

### 25

* Idris Cox, 89, Welsh communist activist and newspaper editor.
* M. A. Daniel, 35, Sri Lankan politician, murdered.

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* 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.

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* Sir Alfred Ayer, 78, English philosopher.
* Jack Buetel, 73, American film and television actor.
* Dorothy Bullitt, 97, American businesswoman and philanthropist.
* Michele Lupo, 56, Italian film director.
* Gregory McMahon, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Stevan Vilotić, 63, Yugoslav footballer and manager.

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* Karl Bendetsen, 81, American politician and military officer, U.S. Under Secretary of the Army.
* Joris Ivens, 90, Dutch documentary filmmaker.
* Mike Sebastian, 79, American NFL footballer.

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* Kazuo Mori, 78, Japanese film director

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* Hilmar Baunsgaard, 69, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark.
* John Bloomfield, 87, Australian politician.
* Jim Dewar, 67, American footballer.
* Rostislav Plyatt, 80, Russian stage and film actor.