# Deaths in July 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

## July 1989
### 1

* William Ching, 75, American actor (D.O.A., Pat and Mike), heart failure.
* Joan Cooper, 66, British actress, stomach cancer.
* Dora Gaitskell, 88, Russian Empire–born British Labour Party politician, member of the House of Lords.
* Veriano Ginesi, 82, Italian actor (Even Angels Eat Beans).
* Eric Holland, 68, New Zealand politician, member of the House of Representatives.
* Sumant Moolgaokar, 82, Indian industrialist, architect of Tata Motors.
* António Morais, 54, Portuguese footballer and manager (FC Porto), car crash.
* Viktor Nekipelov, 60, Soviet poet and writer, member of Moscow Helsinki Group.
* Louise Varèse, 98, American writer and translator of French literature.
* James Wicks, 88, British lawyer and Chief Justice of Kenya.

### 2

* Andrei Gromyko, 79, Soviet politician and diplomat, Chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, ambassador to the U.K., stroke.
* Jean Leguay, 79, French Nazi, convicted war criminal, cancer.
* Josefa Levula, 59, Fijian sprinter, rugby union and rugby league player (Fiji rugby union team, Rochdale Hornets rugby league club).
* Jean Painlevé, 86, French photographer and filmmaker.
* Franklin J. Schaffner, 69, Japanese-born American director (Patton, Planet of the Apes), lung cancer.
* Wilfrid Sellars, 77, American philosopher.
* Ben Wright, 74, English actor (The Sound of Music), complications of heart surgery.

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* Jim Backus, 76, American actor (Gilligan's Island, Mr. Magoo), pneumonia.
* Abe Kesh, 55, American disc jockey and record producer (Blue Cheer).
* Okey Patteson, 90, American politician, governor of West Virginia, pneumonia.
* Mary Shanley, 93, American police officer and detective.
* Loyce Whiteman, 76, American singer.

### 4

* Antonio Roldán Betancur, 43, Colombian politician, governor of Antioquia, assassinated.
* Peter Gillett, 75, British Army general.
* Jack Haig, 76, English actor ('Allo 'Allo!), stomach cancer.
* Bob Hawk, 81, American radio quizmaster and comic.
* Win Maung, 73, Burmese politician, President of Burma.
* Leyla Mammadbeyova, 79, Azerbaijani aviator.
* Vic Perrin, 73, American actor (The Outer Limits), cancer.
* Nelson Sullivan, 41, American videographer, heart attack.

### 5

* Sirarpie Der Nersessian, 92, Armenian art historian.
* Arthur Bispo do Rosário, 78–80, Brazilian artist, heart attack.
* Ernesto Halffter, 84, Spanish composer and conductor, heart failure.
* Maria Vassiliou, 38, English-born Cypriot actress (The Travelling Players), cancer.
* Berthold Wolpe, 83, German-born English typographer and type designer.

### 6

* Jean Bouise, 60, French actor (Coup de tête).
* János Kádár, 77, Hungarian politician, general secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, pneumonia.

### 7

* Irene Bernasconi, 92, Argentinian marine biologist (echinoderms).
* James Carney, 75, Irish Celtic scholar.
* Moshe Kol, 78, Israeli politician, Knesset representative, signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.
* Donald S. Voorhees, 72, American district judge (Western District of Washington).

### 8

* Alice King Chatham, 81, American sculptor, designed personal protective equipment (United States Air Force, NASA).
* August Haußleiter, 84, German politician and journalist.
* Platon Maiboroda, 70, Ukrainian composer.
* Jóvito Villalba, 81, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, member of the Generation of 1928, founder of the Democratic Republican Union.
* Kurt Wagner, 84, East German soldier and politician, Deputy Defence Minister.

### 9

* Andrex, 82, French film actor.
* Lillian Friedman Astor, 77, American animator (Betty Boop).
* Salvatore Colombo, 66, Italian Catholic prelate, bishop of Mogadishu, assassinated.
* Abdellah Guennoun, 80, Moroccan writer and historian.
* Piet Lieftinck, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives and Senate, Minister of Finance, heart failure.
* Elliott Sanger, 92, American co-founder of WQXR-FM.

### 10

* Mel Blanc, 81, American voice actor and radio personality (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat), emphysema and coronary artery disease.
* Rick Carroll, 42, American program director for radio station KROQ-FM, AIDS.
* Jean-Michel Charlier, 64, Belgian comics writer (Buck Danny), co-founder of Pilote.
* Frances Gardner, 76, English cardiologist, introduced angiocardiography to Britain (Royal Free Hospital).
* Nilita Vientós Gastón, 86, Puerto Rican writer and journalist.
* Grace Gibson, 84, American-born Australian radio entrepreneur, executive and producer.
* Tommy Trinder, 80, English comedian, host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

### 11

* Irv Comp, 70, American NFL footballer (Green Bay Packers).
* Laurence Curtis, 95, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Horia Macellariu, 95, Romanian navy rear admiral in Second World War.
* Vic Maile, 55–56, British record producer, cancer.
* Laurence Olivier, 82, English actor and director (Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca), renal failure.
* Richard Travis, 76, American actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).
* Robert Trias, 66, American karate pioneer.
* Tommy Tucker, 86, American bandleader ("I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire").
* Sylwester Zych, 39, Polish Catholic priest, likely murdered.

### 12

* Sidney Hook, 86, American philosopher, heart failure.
* Carlos Puebla, 71, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer.
* Tunku Abdul Rahman, 55, Malaysian royal, Crown Prince of Johor.
* Benjamin B. Rubinstein, 84, Finnish-born American physician and psychoanalyst, cancer.
* Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, 92, Crown Prince of Finland.

### 13

* A. Amirthalingam, 61, Sri Lankan politician, member of Parliament, Leader of the Opposition, assassinated.
* John Bryant, 72, American actor (The Virginian).
* Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, 58, Iranian Kurdish politician, assassinated.
* Homer Gudelsky, 78, American real estate developer (Tysons Corner Center, Westfield Wheaton), leukemia.
* Davud Monshizadeh, 74, Iranian Nazi, founder of SUMKA.
* Arnaldo Ochoa, 58–59, Cuban army general, executed.
* Pedro Orata, 90, Filipino educator, "father of Barrio High Schools".
* V. Yogeswaran, 55, Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament, assassinated.

### 14

* Said S. Bedair, 40, Egyptian microwave scientist, death ostensibly from a fall.
* Frank Bell, 72, British educator, founded Bell Educational Trust.

### 15

* Alexander Altunin, 67, Soviet army general and politician.
* Will Bradley, 77, American trombonist and bandleader ("Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar").
* Laurie Cunningham, 33, English international footballer (West Bromwich Albion, England), car crash.
* Nesuhi Ertegun, 71, Turkish-born American record producer, co-founded New York Cosmos, complications of cancer surgery.
* Maria Kuncewiczowa, 93, Russian Empire–born Polish novelist (Cudzoziemka).
* Artur Sandauer, 75, Polish literary critic, essayist and professor.
* Elizabeth Savage, 71, American novelist and short-story writer (The Last Night at the Ritz).
* Teiichi Suzuki, 100, Japanese army general, Minister of State, member of the House of Peers, heart failure.
* William F. Temple, 75, British science fiction writer (Four Sided Triangle).
* Dennis Wilson, 69, British pianist, composer and conductor.

### 16

* John N. Dempsey, 74, Irish-born American politician, Governor of Connecticut, lung cancer.
* Nicolás Guillén, 87, Cuban poet, journalist and political activist, Parkinson's disease.
* Brynmor Jones, 85, Welsh-born vice-chancellor of the University of Hull.
* Herbert von Karajan, 81, Austrian conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, heart attack.
* Uma Maheswaran, 44, Sri Lankan Tamil rebel, founder of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, assassinated.

### 17

* Dudley Brooks, 75, American jazz pianist and composer.
* Paul C, 24, American hip hopper, producer and engineer, murdered.
* Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, 89, French pianist and wife of Samuel Beckett, member of the French Resistance.
* Dayal Kaur Khalsa, 46, American-born Canadian author and illustrator of children's books, breast cancer.
* Paul Lemerle, 86, French founding president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies.
* John McAnulty, Northern Irish grain importer and informant, killed by the IRA.
* Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry, 100, Indian Sanskrit and Vedas scholar and writer.

### 18

* Donnie Moore, 35, American Major League baseballer (California Angels), suicide.
* Oonah Keogh, 86, Irish member of the Dublin Stock Exchange.
* Marika Nezer, 82–83, Greek actress.
* Shmuel Rodensky, 86, Russian-born Israeli actor (Tevye and His Seven Daughters, The Odessa File), heart attack.
* Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, American actress (My Sister Sam), murdered.
* Mihailo Živanović, 61, Yugoslavian clarinettist, composer and conductor.

### 19

* J. M. Cohen, 86, British translator of European literature into English.
* Colin Crowe, 75, British diplomat, Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
* Nigel Dennis, 77, English writer, playwright and magazine editor (Cards of Identity).
* Shinjō Itō, 83, Japanese founder of the Buddhist school Shinnyo-en.
* Walter Karp, 55, American journalist, historian and writer (American Heritage, Horizon).
* Jay Ramsdell, 25, American commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, plane crash.
* Vivian Reed, 95, American silent-screen actress (His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz).
* Kazimierz Sabbat, 76, Prime minister and president of the Polish government in exile, heart attack.
* Carl-Heinz Schroth, 87, German actor and film director.
* John Kenneth Stille, 59, American chemist (Stille reaction), plane crash.
* Benjamin Tammuz, 70, Israeli writer and artist.
* Lavinia Williams, 73, American dancer and dance educator, heart attack.

### 20

* Forrest H. Anderson, 76, American politician, governor and attorney general of Montana, suicide.
* Valentine Bargmann, 81, German-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist, heart failure.
* Juan Carlos Altavista, 60, Argentinian actor and comedian, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
* Lauro Corona, 32, Brazilian actor.
* Karen DeWolf, 85, American screenwriter and novelist (Blondie).
* Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, 79, leader of French Resistance network "Alliance".
* Bruce Greatbatch, 72, British Colonial Service officer and soldier, governor of the Seychelles.
* John Sleeuwenhoek, 45, English professional footballer (Aston Villa).
* Mary Treen, 82, American film and television actress (The Joey Bishop Show), cancer.
* Yannis Tsarouchis, 79, Greek modernist painter and set designer (Cafe Neon).
* Harry Worth, 71, English comedian and ventriloquist, spinal cancer.

### 21

* Donald Brittain, 61, Canadian film director and producer (Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed).
* James M. Collins, 73, American businessman and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* M Osman Ghani, 77, Bangladeshi scientist, vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.
* Derrick Gregory, 39, English drug smuggler, executed.
* Mushtaq Ali Khan, 78, Indian classical sitar player.
* Genevieve Naylor, 74, American photographer and photojournalist.
* Chafia Rochdi, 78, Tunisian singer and actress.
* William T. Whisner Jr., 65, American pilot in U.S. Air Force, complications from wasp sting.

### 22

* Janet Lee Bouvier, 81, American socialite, mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Alzheimer's disease.
* Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf, 90, American botanist and agronomist (maize).
* Bob Mullens, 66, American professional basketballer (Toronto Huskies), brain tumour.
* Martti Talvela, 54, Finnish operatic bass, heart attack.
* Frank Thompson, 70, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, esophageal cancer.
* Marin Varbanov, 56, Bulgarian painter.
* Hally Wood, 66, American musician and singer.

### 23

* Donald Barthelme, 58, American short story writer, novelist and journalist, throat cancer.
* Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, 68, daughter of emperor Charles I of Austria.
* Hank Greenspun, 79, American publisher of Las Vegas Sun newspaper.
* Thevis Guruge, Sri Lankan broadcaster with Radio Ceylon, murdered.
* Claude Harmon, 73, American professional golfer, heart failure.
* Angel Planells, 87, Spanish surrealist painter.
* Daniel Rhodes, 78, American artist, heart attack.
* Michael Sundin, 28, English television presenter, actor and dancer (Blue Peter), AIDS.
* Alexander Weygers, 87, Dutch East Indies–born American artist, engineer and author.

### 24

* Walter Dick, 83, Scottish-born American international footballer (Providence F.C., U.S.A.).
* Charlie Gallagher, 51, Irish Gaelic footballer (Cavan), drowned.
* Sunshine Sammy Morrison, 76, American actor, comedian and dancer, cancer.
* Eleanor Raymond, 102, American architect (Dover Sun House).

### 25

* Steve Rubell, 45, American entrepreneur, owner of New York City disco Studio 54, hepatitis complicated by AIDS.

### 26

* Derek Ball, British sound engineer and Academy Award winner (Star Wars).

### 27

* Warren Low, 83, American film editor (Now, Voyager, Out of the Fog).
* Dolf Sternberger, 81, German philosopher and political scientist.

### 28

* B. V. Bowden, 79, English scientist, Minister of State for Education and Science.
* Roland Kotani, 35, American politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, murdered.
* Jeff Richards, 64, American actor (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), respiratory failure.

### 29

* Nancy Andrews, 68, American actress and singer, heart attack.
* Osvaldo Brandão, 72, Brazilian footballer and coach (Internacional).
* Rudy Zamora, 79, Mexican-born American animator (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, The Jetsons).

### 30

* Lily Broberg, 65, Danish stage and film actress.
* Paul DiCocco Sr., 65, American racketeer and illegal gambler, associate of mobster Carmine Galante, complications from a heart transplant.
* Wes Fesler, 81, American college football, basketball and baseball player and coach.
* Lane Frost, 25, American professional rodeo cowboy, killed by bull.
* Octave Mannoni, 89, French psychoanalyst and author.

### 31

* Premakeerthi de Alwis, 42, Sri Lankan radio and television broadcaster and lyricist, murdered.
* Eddie Gannon, 78, Irish footballer.
* Michael Harrington, 61, American author, political activist and radio commentator, esophageal cancer.
* Bull Moose Jackson, 70, American rhythm-and-blues singer and saxophonist, lung cancer.
* Geronima Pecson, 92, Filipina educator and suffragette, first woman senator of the Philippines.
* George Augustus Vaughn Jr., 92, American fighter ace in World War I, brain tumour.
* Zhou Yang, 80, Chinese literary theorist, translator and Marxist.

### Unknown date

* Hui Yuyu, 79–80, Chinese politician.