# Deaths in October 1989
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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

* Eric Ball, 85, British composer and brass band conductor.
* Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican politician, traffic collision.
* Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor.
* Ian Keith, 81, Scottish peer and nobleman.
* David Lindesay-Bethune, 63, British soldier and hereditary peer.
* Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra).

### 2

* Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress (White Amazons).
* Aubrey Boomer, 91, American golfer, stroke.
* Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor and director, heart attack.
* Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer.
* Gregory Marshall, 50, American actor.
* Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, 73, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arauca, shot.

### 3

* John Eugene Cay Jr., 74, American author (Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter), brain tumour.
* David H. Geiger, 53–54, American engineer, heart attack.
* Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer.
* Andrée Lafayette, 86, French actress (Trilby).
* Dennis McGee, 96, American Cajun musician.
* Yvonne Sylvain, 82, Haitian physician.
* Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke.
* Norman Yardley, 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke.

### 4

* Michael Barton Akehurst, 48–49, British lawyer and author.
* Thomas Canning, 77, American composer and music educator.
* Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer (Monty Python), tonsil cancer.
* Laura Combes, 35, American bodybuilder, alcohol poisoning.
* Frederic de Hoffmann, 65, Austrian-born American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), AIDS from blood transfusion.
* Moisés Giroldi, 39, Panamanian military commander (1989 Panamanian coup attempt), executed.
* Ramchandra Purushottam Marathe, 64, Indian music director, singer and actor.
* Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer.
* Betsy King Ross, 68, American actress, anthropologist and author.
* Lutero Vargas, 77, Brazilian physician, diplomat and politician, ambassador to Nicaragua.

### 5

* Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart ailments and pneumonia.
* Lawrence Dundas, 80, British hereditary peer.
* Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
* Big Wilson, 65, American radio personality, heart attack.

### 6

* Patricia Cockburn, 75, Irish writer and artist, cancer.
* Bette Davis, 81, American actress (Dangerous, Jezebel), cancer.
* Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor and director, ruptured aneurysm.
* Howard Garns, 84, American architect, creator of Sudoku, cancer.
* Tina Isa, 16, American murder victim.
* Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer and journalist, sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
* Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe officer and flying ace.
* Jack Turner, 100, Canadian war photographer.

### 7

* Kurt Carlsen, 75, Danish-born American sea-captain (SS Flying Enterprise).
* Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, Victoria Cross recipient, cancer.

### 8

* Genki Abe, 95, Japanese lawyer, police bureaucrat and cabinet minister.
* Onest Conley, 82, American film actor (Racing Luck).
* Anne Dawson, 92, British secret agent in World War I.
* Alwyn Harris, Royal Ulster Constabulary superintendent killed by the Provisional I.R.A..
* Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist (Club Atlético Welcome, Uruguay).
* Dagmar Oakland, 92, American actress.
* Edward Woods, 86, American actor (The Public Enemy).

### 9

* Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack.
* Elizabeth Cadell, 85, British and Portuguese writer.
* Penny Lernoux, 49, American author and journalist, lung cancer.
* Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-born American writer (The Hazaras), liver failure.

### 10

* Robin Hughes, 69, Argentinian-born British film and television actor, liver disease.

### 11

* Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect, designer of Synagogues, lung cancer.
* M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist (Hubbert peak theory), pulmonary embolism.
* Arnold Picker, 76, American film executive and mayor of Golden Beach, Florida, on Nixon's Enemies List, pneumonia.
* Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director (The Secret of NIMH, Scarface), AIDS.
* Zeng Xianzhi, 79, Chinese revolutionary and politician.

### 12

* Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer.
* Joe Foy, 46, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox), heart attack.
* Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS.
* Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
* Jay Ward, 69, American creator of animated TV cartoons (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends), renal cancer.
* N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet and journalist.

### 13

* Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.
* Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
* Munawar Ali Khan, 59, Indian classical vocalist.
* Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash.
* Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter.

### 14

* Martin Broszat, 63, German historian.
* Michael Carmine, 30, American actor, AIDS.
* Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian-born silent-screen actress.
* Scott Liebler, 29, American racing driver, racing accident.
* René Petit, 90, French engineer and international footballer (Real Unión, France).
* Amancio Williams, 76, Argentinian architect.

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* James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
* Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure.
* Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist and short story writer (Hourglass), lung cancer.
* Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer (Island of the Blue Dolphins), prostate cancer.
* Michał Rola-Żymierski, 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland.
* Heinrich Walter, 90, German-Russian botanist.

### 16

* Walter Farley, 74, American author (The Black Stallion), cancer.
* Alfred Krupa, 74, Polish-born Yugoslavian painter.
* Frederick Millar, 89, British diplomat, ambassador to West Germany.
* Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor (A Song to Remember), leukemia.

### 17

* John J. Anderson, 32, American writer on computing and technology (Computer Shopper, MacUser), California earthquake.
* Morteza Hannaneh, 66, Iranian composer and musician.
* Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician (operator theory).
* J. B. Malone, 75, Irish hill-walking enthusiast.
* Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
* R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident.
* Derek Pace, 57, English footballer (Sheffield United).

### 18

* Stan Miasek, 65, American NBA basketballer (Chicago Stags).

### 19

* Eric Dixon, 59, American tenor saxophonist, flautist and composer.
* Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer (Everton, England).
* Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia.
* Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor (Aangan Terha), heart attack.

### 20

* Dan Ben-Amotz, 65, Polish-born Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist and author, liver cancer.
* Rupert Costo, 82–83, Native American writer, activist and publisher.
* Dmitry Faddeev, 82, Soviet mathematician.
* Katharina Heinroth, 92, German zoologist, director of Berlin Zoo.
* Gurdial Singh Phul, 77–78, Indian Punjabi dramatist.
* Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Anne of the Thousand Days), liver cancer.

### 21

* Alfred Hayes, 79, American banker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
* Jean Image, 78, Hungarian-French director and producer of animation films.

### 22

* Ross Freeman, 41, American electrical engineer and inventor, co-founder of Xilinx.
* Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer and songwriter (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face), complications from heart surgery.
* Tony Manero, 84, American golfer, winner of 1936 U.S. Open.
* Jacob Wetterling, 11, American murder victim.
* Roland Winters, 84, American actor (Charlie Chan), stroke.

### 23

* Edmund E. Anderson, 83, American automotive designer (American Motors Corporation, General Motors).
* Armida, 78, Mexican-born American actress, singer and dancer, heart attack.
* Basavaraj Kattimani, 70, Indian novelist and journalist.
* Anatoly Lutikov, 56, Russian chess player.
* Konrad Wolff, 82, German pianist and musicologist, heart failure.

### 24

* Dean Alfange, 91, American politician, deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer.
* Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian army general, Chief of the Army Staff.
* Eugène Claudius-Petit, 82, French politician.
* Phyllis Greenacre, 95, American psychoanalyst and physician.
* Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain.
* Alex Seidel, 80, German weapons manufacturer, co-founder of Heckler & Koch.
* Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer.

### 25

* Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 68, Mexican-born American painter, sculptor and illustrator, murdered.
* Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist (The Group), lung cancer.
* Steve Moore, 29, American NFL footballer (New England Patriots), murdered.
* Carl Schmitt, 100, American painter and writer.
* Gerard Walschap, 91, Belgian writer.

### 26

* Don Bass, 33, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), murdered.
* Ermal C. Fraze, 76, American engineer, inventor of the pull-tab opener, brain tumour.
* Mabel Hampton, 87, American gay activist and dancer, pneumonia.
* Nora Levin, 73, American Holocaust historian, cancer.
* Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
* Gordon Reid, 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer.
* Cynthia Slater, 44, American sex educator, AIDS.
* Kumeko Urabe, 87, Japanese movie actress, burns.

### 27

* Burton C. Gray, 48, American economist and entrepreneur, co-founded Scientific Time Sharing Corporation.
* William Kerwin, 62, American actor and filmmaker, heart attack.
* Allan Campbell McLean, 66, British writer and political activist.
* Amy Mihaljevic, 10, American murder victim.
* Benjamin Murmelstein, 84, Austrian rabbi.
* Francesco Ruspoli, 90, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.

### 28

* Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver.
* Henry Hall, 91, English bandleader.
* Louise Hay, 54, French-born American mathematician (recursively enumerable sets), breast cancer.
* Dado Marino, 74, American flyweight boxer, world flyweight champion.
* Liam Redmond, 76, Irish stage, film and television actor.
* Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director (Aelita).
* Kateb Yacine, 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays.

### 29

* Roland Anderson, 85, American movie art director.
* Róża Maria Goździewska, 53, Polish child nurse during Warsaw uprising.
* Ndaba Mhlongo, 56, South African actor and choreographer.

### 30

* Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 88, American attorney and U.S. district judge, pneumonia.
* Karen Grigorian, 42, Armenian chess master, suicide.
* Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director.
* Aristid Lindenmayer, 63, Hungarian biologist (L-systems).
* Erich Reuter, 85, Nazi German general in the Wehrmacht.
* Yisrael Spira, 99, Polish Holocaust survivor.
* Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, diabetes.

### 31

* Conrad Beck, 88, Swiss composer.
* Sune Lindström, 82, Swedish architect.
* Elliott Loughlin, 79, American U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
* Georgi Partsalev, 64, Bulgarian theatre and film actor.
* Roger Scott, 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer.
* Walter R. Tkach, 72, American Physician to the President, heart disease.

### Unknown date

* Wilgar Campbell, 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness.
* Johannes Mashiane, South African rapist and serial killer, suicide.
* Gerry Monroe, 56, English pop singer.