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

## January 1989
### 1

* Charles Cornell, 77, American Communist (Socialist Workers Party).
* Musa Mwariama, 61, Kenyan revolutionary leader (Mau Mau rebellion), ingested snake venom.
* Joseph Petre, 17th Baron Petre, 74, English peer.
* G. Sankara Pillai, 58, Indian playwright, literary critic and director.
* Anthony Pini, 86, Argentinian-Scottish cellist (London Philharmonic Orchestra).
* Irvin Shapiro, 82, American producer, film importer and film distributor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Aleka Stratigou, 62, Greek actress

### 2

* Safdar Hashmi, 34, Indian playwright and director, and communist activist, murdered.

### 3

* Robert Banks, 67, American chemist (Phillips Petroleum, Perkin Medal).
* Betty Behrens, 84, British historian and academic (University of Cambridge).
* Errol Le Cain, 47, British animator and children's book illustrator (Hiawatha's Childhood – Kate Greenaway Medal).
* Laurence Grafftey-Smith, 96, British diplomat, member of the British Consular Service.
* Eddie Heywood, 73, American jazz pianist and composer (Soft Summer Breeze, Canadian Sunset).
* Bernhard Krüger, 84, Nazi German SS Sturmbannführer.
* Lina Prokofiev, 91, Spanish singer
* Sergei Sobolev, 80, Soviet mathematician.
* Robert Thomas, 61, French writer, actor and film director.
* Nick Virgilio, 60, American haiku poet, heart attack.
* Jean Willes, 65, American film and television actress (The King and Four Queens, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), liver cancer.

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* Srikrishna Alanahalli, 41, Indian novelist and poet (Kaadu, Parasangada Gendethimma).
* Ratanlal Brahmin, 88, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
* Pino Calvi, 58, Italian pianist, conductor and composer (Accarezzame).
* Junko Furuta, 17, Japanese student, murdered.
* Clare Leighton, 91, English–American artist, writer and illustrator, known for wood engravings.
* D. R. Nanayakkara, 73, Sri Lankan cinema actor (Rekava, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
* Robert Watson Pomeroy, 86, American businessman and politician, member of the New York Senate, heart failure.
* Naomi Chapman Woodroof, 88, American agriculturalist, known for increasing peanut yields five-fold.

### 5

* Philip Herschkowitz, 82, Romanian-born composer and music theorist.
* Dexter Masters, 79, American editor and novelist (One World or None: a Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb).
* Nell O'Day, 79, American equestrian and actress, heart attack.

### 6

* Eduardo Balderas, 81, Mexican-born American translator for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
* Hans von Campenhausen, 85, Baltic German Protestant theologian.
* Jim Hurtubise, 56, American race car driver, winner of 1966 Atlanta 500, heart attack.
* Illingworth "Buck" Kerr, 83, Canadian painter, known for landscape paintings of Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills, suicide.
* Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, 69, American figure in civil rights and women's movement, director of the United States Women's Bureau, heart attack.
* Sir Edmund Leach, 78, British social anthropologist, president of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
* Elisa Lispector, 77, Brazilian novelist (Além da Fronteira, O Muro de Pedras).
* George Mercer, 44, American rapist and murderer, executed.
* John Donald Robb, 96, American composer and arts administrator.
* Kehar Singh, 53–54, Indian co-conspirator in the Indira Gandhi assassination, executed.
* Satwant Singh, 26–27, Indian co-assassin of Indira Gandhi, executed.

### 7

* Frank Adams, 58, British mathematician, Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge (Adams spectral sequence, Adams conjecture).
* Alfred Dieck, 82, German archaeologist whose work has been largely discredited.
* Hirohito, 87, longest reigning Emperor of Japan, cancer.
* Josef Moll, 80, Nazi German Wehrmacht and West German Bundeswehr officer, Inspector of the Army.
* Aslam Pahalwan, 61, Pakistani professional wrestler and world heavyweight champion.
* Timothy Plowman, 44, American ethnobotanist, known for study of Erythroxylum, AIDS contracted from inoculations.
* Stuart Rhodes, 78, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club).

### 8

* Mieczysław G. Bekker, 83–84, Polish American vehicular engineer, contributed to design and construction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
* Ronald DiPerna, 41, American mathematician in nonlinear partial differential equations.
* Johnny Jordaan, 64, Dutch singer of levenslied.
* Kenneth McMillan, 56, American actor (Rhoda, Dune), liver disease.

### 9

* Richard Barr, 71, American theatre director and producer, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, AIDS-related liver failure.
* Walter Köhler, 91, German Nazi Party politician, Minister President of Baden.
* Marshall H. Stone, 85, American mathematician at Harvard (Stone–von Neumann uniqueness theorem), stroke.
* Bill Terry, 90, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants).
* John K. Waters, 82, American general in the U.S. Army, heart failure.

### 10

* Chris Avram, 57, Romanian-Italian film actor
* Yi Eungro, 84, Korean-born French painter and printmaker, heart attack.
* Kai Fjell, 81, Norwegian painter.
* Karl Geiringer, 89, Austrian-American musicologist and biographer of composers, complications from a fall.
* Valentin Glushko, 80, Soviet engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program.
* Royal Little, 92, American founder and chair of Textron.
* Herbert Morrison, 83, American radio journalist, voice of the Hindenburg disaster.
* Colin Winchester, 55, assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, assassinated.

### 11

* Sir George Abell, 84, English civil servant and cricketer, director of the Bank of England.
* Hai Deng, 86, Chinese Buddhist monk and martial artist, emeritus abbot of Shaolin Temple.
* Michael Forrestal, 61, American National Security Advisor of President John F. Kennedy, aneurysm.
* August Koern, 88, Estonian statesman and diplomat.
* Ray Moore, 47, British broadcaster, host of early morning show on BBC Radio 2, throat cancer.
* José Bustamante y Rivero, 94, Peruvian politician and diplomat, President of Peru.
* Jackie Wright, 84, Northern Irish comedian, bald-headed sidekick of Benny Hill.

### 12

* Ray Morehart, 89, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees).
* Percy Price Jr., 52, American amateur boxer and Olympian.
* Nikos Psacharopoulos, 60, Greek-American theatre producer and director, co-founder of Williamstown Theater Festival, colon cancer.
* Satyam, 55–56, Indian composer.
* Willy Schneider, 83, German schlager singer.

### 13

* Hermann Bartels, 88, Nazi German architect and member of the SS.
* Sterling Allen Brown, 87, American professor and poet, Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia, leukemia.
* Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 89, British feminist and politician, Member of Parliament.
* Candy Csencsits, 33, American professional female bodybuilder and actress, breast cancer.
* Hiram E. McCallum, 89, Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto.
* John Moorman, 83, English Bishop of Ripon.
* Ray Morehart, 89, American baseball player.
* José María Peña, 93, Spanish international footballer and manager, Olympian.
* Joe Spinell, 52, American actor (The Godfather, Rocky, Taxi Driver)

### 14

* Ernie Blake, 75, German-American co-founder of Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, pneumonia.
* Robert Lekachman, 68, American economist, promoter of social justice, liver cancer.
* Robert Lembke, 75, German television presenter and game show host (Was bin ich? – What's my Line)
* Ramesh Prasad Mohapatra, 49, Indian archaeologist, curator for archaeology at Odisha State Museum.
* Marco Vassi, 51, American author, noted for erotica, pneumonia.
* Richard Warner, 77, English actor (George and Margaret, When We Are Married)
* Nguyễn Văn Xuân, 96, Vietnamese politician, prime minister of Vietnam.

### 15

* Wendy Foster, 51, British architect, co-founder of Team 4 and Foster Associates, cancer.
* Helen Logan, 82, American screenwriter.
* Ibrahim Shihab, 65, Maldivian writer and politician.
* Wilf Slack, 34, English international cricketer (English national team, Middlesex), heart attack.
* Trevor Swan, 71, Australian economist (Solow–Swan growth model).

### 16

* Mick Baxter, 32, English footballer (Preston North End, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth), cancer.
* Pierre Boileau, 82, half of French crime-writing duo Boileau-Narcejac (Les Diaboliques, Vertigo).
* Joseph Henry Lynch, 77, British artist (Tina, Autumn Leaves, Woodland Goddess).
* Prem Nazir, 62, Indian actor (Vida Parayum Munpe, Iruttinte Athmavu), measles.
* George Ray Tweed, 86, American radioman in the U.S. Navy, known for evading capture for more than two years, car accident.
* Trey Wilson, 40, American actor (Raising Arizona, Bull Durham), cerebral hemorrhage.

### 17

* Gordon Allott, 82, American politician (Republican), U.S. Senator.
* Wajid Ali Khan Burki, 88, Pakistani ophthalmologist, lung cancer.
* Michael Francke, 42, American judge, director of New Mexico and Oregon Corrections Departments, murdered.
* Sam Longson, 88, British businessman, chairman of Derby County Football Club.
* Óscar Vargas Prieto, 71, Peruvian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Peru.
* Georges Schéhadé, 83, Lebanese playwright and poet (Histoire de Vasco).
* Alfredo Zitarrosa, 52, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and poet (Doña Soledad, Crece desde el Pie, Recordándote).

### 18

* Bruce Chatwin, 48, British travel writer and novelist (On the Black Hill, Utz), AIDS.
* Buster Clarkson, 73, American Major League and Negro League baseballer (Boston Braves).
* John D. Hickerson, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines and Finland, cancer.
* Irving Resnick, 72, American mobster, boxing promoter and manager, heart failure.

### 19

* Devi Dja, 74, Indonesian-American dancer, actress and singer (Dardanella theatre company), cancer.
* Viva Tattersall, 90, British stage and film actress (The Whispering Shadow).
* Norma Varden, 90, English-American actress (Casablanca, The White Cliffs of Dover, The Sound of Music), heart failure.
* Octavio Vial, 70, Mexican international football manager and World Cup coach.

### 20

* Mete Adanır, 27, Turkish Cypriot footballer (Altay, Samsunspor), team bus accident.
* Józef Cyrankiewicz, 77, Polish communist politician, prime minister and president of Poland.
* John Harding, 92, British Army Field Marshall, Governor of Cyprus.
* Alamgir Kabir, 50, Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist, drowned.
* Beatrice Lillie, 94, Canadian-British actress, singer and comedic performer (Inside U.S.A., High Spirits).
* Whistlin' Alex Moore, 89, American blues pianist and singer (Blue Bloomer Blues, Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls), heart attack.
* Morris Starsky, 55, American political and social activist, philosophy professor (Arizona State University), heart disease.
* Halsey Stevens, 80, American music professor, biographer and composer.

### 21

* Muharrem Bajraktari, 92, Albanian Muslim guerrilla fighter (National Committee for a Free Albania).
* William O. Burch, 84, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
* Morley Drury, 85, Canadian-American footballer (University of Southern California).
* Carl Furillo, 66, American Major League baseball player (Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers), heart attack.
* Leslie Halliwell, 59, British film critic (Filmgoer's Companion, Halliwell's Film Guide), esophageal cancer.
* Gulabrao Patil, 67, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
* Robert H. Pierson, 78, American president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
* Billy Tipton, (Dorothy Lucille Tipton), 74, American transgender jazz musician and bandleader, peptic ulcer.

### 22

* Miodrag Andrić, 45, Serbian actor.
* James Francis Collins, 83, American general in the U.S. Army, prostate cancer.
* Sydney Goldstein, 85, British mathematician (Fluid dynamics).
* Joseph Mattsson-Boze, 83, Swedish-American minister, pastor of Chicago's Philadelphia Church.
* Ugo Pignotti, 90, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist.
* S. Vithiananthan, 64, Sri Lankan writer, vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
* Willie Wells, 82, American Negro League baseballer, congestive heart failure.
* Sándor Weöres, 75, Hungarian poet and author.

### 23

* George Case, 73, American Major League baseballer (Washington Senators), emphysema.
* Nguyễn Minh Châu, 58, Vietnamese novelist.
* Salvador Dalí, 84, Spanish artist (Cabaret Scene, The Basket of Bread, The First Days of Spring), cardiac arrest.
* M. Govindan, 69, Indian writer and cultural activist (Nokkukuthi).
* Robert Kelly, 75, American officer in the U.S. Navy, known for evacuating General Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines, pneumonia.
* John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 81, Italian-born British peer and soldier, member of the House of Lords.
* Hans Karl Meyer, 90, Nazi German admiral in the Kriegsmarine and flotilla admiral of the West German navy.
* Angus Morrison, 86, English pianist, Order of the British Empire.
* Lars-Erik Torph, 28, Swedish rally driver, rally crash as a spectator.
* Gilbert L. Voss, 70–71, American conservationist and oceanographer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).

### 24

* Ted Bundy, 42, American serial killer, executed.
* Matelo Ferret, 70–71, French guitarist and composer, cancer.
* Roberto Figueroa, 84, Uruguayan international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.
* George Knudson, 51, Canadian professional golfer, cancer.
* Sasha Putrya, 11, Ukrainian artist, leukemia.
* Michael Scott, 83, Irish architect (Busáras building, Cork Opera House, Abbey Theatre).
* Les Spann, 56, American jazz guitarist and flautist.
* Chauncey Stillman, 81, American philanthropist, art collector, conservationist and banking heir.
* Siegfried Wischnewski, 66, German stage and film actor (Derrick, Der Kommissar)

### 25

* David Basnett, 64, British trade union leader, president of the Trades Union Congress.
* Carlisle H. Humelsine, 73, American diplomat and military officer, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration.
* Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, 51, Honduran military officer, head of the Honduran armed forces, assassinated.
* Alvin Robinson, 51, American rhythm and blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (Something You Got).
* Bikki Sunazawa, 57, Japanese woodcarver, painter, artist and sculptor, bone marrow cancer.
* Dave Underwood, 60, English footballer.

### 26

* Morton DaCosta, 74, American theatre and film director and producer, writer and actor (Plain and Fancy, Auntie Mame, The Music Man), heart failure.
* Donnie Elbert, 52, American soul singer and songwriter (Where Did Our Love Go, I Can't Help Myself), stroke.
* William Forrest, 86, American theatre, film and television actor, heart failure.
* Albert Hofstadter, 78, American philosopher.
* H. Claude Hudson, 102, American businessman and civil rights advocate, founder of Broadway Federal Savings and Loan Association.
* Segundo Llorente, 82, Spanish Jesuit missionary, philosopher and author.

### 27

* Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, 62, Irish writer (Dialann Deoraí, Deoraithe).
* Abu Baker Asvat, 46, South African medical doctor, murdered.
* David Buck, 52, English actor and voice actor (Horatio Hornblower, The Lord of the Rings)
* Bayani Casimiro, 70, Filipino dancer.
* Bob Haymes, 65, American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter (That's All), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Robert A. Henle, 65–66, American electrical engineer (semiconductors).
* Vasily Konovalenko, 59, Soviet artist (gemstone sculptures), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Willibald Kreß, 82, German international footballer and manager (Dresdner SC).
* Arthur Marshall, 78, British writer, raconteur and broadcaster (Call My Bluff).
* Sir Thomas Sopwith, 101, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman, European ice hockey champion.

### 28

* Michael Behrens, 77, British financier, banker, stockbroker, and restaurant and gallery owner, co-owner of the Ionian Bank.
* Eugene Emond, 68, American officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
* Choekyi Gyaltsen, Panchen Lama, 50, Tibetan Buddhist leader, heart attack.
* Halina Konopacka, 88, Polish discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist.
* Olli Puhakka, 72, Finnish Air Force ace in World War II.
* Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia, 80, Indian scholar and archaeologist.
* Marc Stevens, 45, American erotic performer, AIDS.
* Yoshimaro Yamashina, 88, Japanese ornithologist.

### 29

* Federico Cantú Garza, 81, Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor.
* Mandel Kramer, 72, American actor and voice actor (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar).

### 30

* Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, 52, heir of the Spanish monarchy in the event of restoration, skiing accident.
* Pegeen Fitzgerald, 84, American radio personality (The Fitzgeralds), breast cancer.
* Jack George, 60, American NBA basketballer (Philadelphia Warriors, New York Knicks).
* Friedrich Solmsen, 84, German-American philologist and professor of classical studies.

### 31

* Yasushi Akutagawa, 63, Japanese composer and conductor.
* Audrey Beecham, 73, English poet and historian, asthma.
* Jack Douglas, 80, American comedy writer.
* Bob Dunn, 80, American cartoonist, entertainer and gagwriter.
* Arthur Reginald Evans, 83, Australian coastwatcher, rescuer of JFK.
* Fernando Gonçalves Namora, 69, Portuguese writer and medical doctor (Retalhos da Vida de um Médico).
* William Stephenson, 92, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster (British Security Co-ordination).

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* Lewis Goram, 63, Scottish footballer (Bury F.C.).
* Leo Holzer, 86–87, Austrian-Czech firefighter and Holocaust survivor.
* Oliver Sipple, 47, American who prevented assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford.
* Violet Winspear, 60, British romance author, cancer.