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

## September 1989
### 1

* Kevin Andrews, 75, American archaeologist and writer, drowned.
* Paul Chung, 30, Hong Kong actor, suicide.
* Kazimierz Deyna, 41, Polish international footballer (Legia Warsaw, Poland), car accident.
* Bart Giamatti, 51, American Commissioner of Major League Baseball, heart attack.
* Dipa Ma, 78, Indian meditation teacher.
* Albert Outler, 80, American Methodist historian and pastor, stroke.
* Shah Azizur Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
* Leslie Runciman, 89, British shipping magnate.
* Tadeusz Sendzimir, 95, Polish engineer and inventor, stroke.
* Yevgeny Veltistov, 55, Soviet writer and screenwriter.

### 2

* Clifton Parker, 84, British composer.
* Brian Robinson, appr. 27, Northern Ireland loyalist militant (Ulster Volunteer Force), shot.

### 3

* John Augustine Collins, 90, Royal Australian Navy vice admiral, Chief of Navy.
* Augie Lio, 71, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions).
* Gaetano Scirea, 36, Italian international footballer (Juventus, Italy), car accident.
* Rip Sewell, 82, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Meena Shorey, 67, Pakistani film actress (Ek Thi Larki).

### 4

* Colin Clark, 83, British and Australian economist and statistician (gross national product).
* Zenon Kliszko, 80, Polish politician.
* Carl-August von Schoenebeck, 91, Nazi German general in the Luftwaffe.
* Georges Simenon, 86, Belgian writer (Jules Maigret), complications from a fall.
* Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand–born British classicist and historian (The Roman Revolution).

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* Philip Baxter, 84, British and Australian chemical engineer, chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission.
* Michael Fidler, 73, British politician, Member of Parliament.
* William Mann, 65, English music critic, complications from surgery.
* J. Barkley Rosser, 81, American logician (Church–Rosser theorem), aneurysm.

### 6

* Edwin Arthur Burtt, 96, American philosopher.
* Muhammad Ibrahim, 77, Bangladeshi physician.
* Gina Manès, 96, French film actress.
* Jimmy Ruffell, 89, English international footballer (West Ham United, England).

### 7

* Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman, World Championship gold medalist, heart attack.
* Valery Goborov, 23, Soviet basketball player, Olympic gold medalist, car crash.
* Mikhail Goldstein, 71, German composer and violinist.

### 8

* Frederic L. Chapin, 60, American diplomat, ambassador to Ethiopia, Guatemala and Chad, cancer.
* Keef Cowboy, 28, American rapper, invented term "hip hop", drug overdose.
* Ann George, 86, English actress (Crossroads), cancer.
* Paul Alfred Weiss, 91, Austrian and American biologist.

### 9

* Elephter Andronikashvili, 78, Georgian physicist.
* Christopher Chancellor, 85, British journalist, general manager of Reuters.
* Radharani Devi, 85, Indian poet.
* Oleksiy Fedorov, 88, Soviet army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Josette Frank, 96, American children's literature expert, pneumonia.
* Tim Hovey, 44, American child actor, road manager of Grateful Dead, suicide.
* John McShain, 92, American building contractor, "The Man Who Built Washington", stroke.

### 10

* Jeff Stollmeyer, 68, Trinidad and Tobago test cricketer and captain (West Indies) and senator, wounds from home invaders.

### 11

* Lucy Carnegie Ferguson, 89, American preservationist (Cumberland Island).
* Paul Gann, 77, American political activist, pneumonia.

### 12

* Gladys Jayawardene, Sri Lankan physician, chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka, assassinated.
* John D. Landers, 69 American officer in the United States Army Air Forces.
* Anton Lubowski, 37, Namibian anti-apartheid activist and advocate, assassinated.
* Fishbait Miller, 80, American Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
* Sterjo Spasse, 75, Albanian prose writer and novelist.
* Seamus Twomey, 69, Irish republican militant activist, chief of staff of the Provisional I.R.A..
* Don Walker, 81, American Broadway orchestrator and composer.

### 13

* Acharya Aatreya, 68, Indian poet, playwright and screenwriter.
* Gilles Andriamahazo, 70, Madagascan general in the French army, head of state of Madagascar, heart attack.
* Géza Frid, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born Dutch composer and pianist.
* Sagarika Gomes, 27, Sri Lankan newscaster, abducted and murdered.
* Kamal Irani, 57, Pakistani film actor (Shaheed), heart attack.
* Charles H. Russell, 85, American politician, Governor of Nevada, heart attack.
* Ron Whyte, 47, American playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.
* John Yovicsin, 70, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart disease.

### 14

* John Bright, 81, American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.
* Tim Brown, 51, American figure skater, World Figure Skating Championships medalist, AIDS.
* Marvin Middlemark, 69, American inventor of the Rabbit Ears television antenna.
* Benjamin Peary Pal, 83, Indian plant breeder and agronomist, director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
* Dámaso Pérez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader and composer, popularised the mambo, stroke.
* Heinz Schmidt, 82, German journalist and editor.
* Tika Lal Taploo, 58, Indian politician, assassinated.
* Valentina, 90, Ukrainian-born American fashion designer, Parkinson's disease.

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* Harry Cave, 66, New Zealand test cricketer and captain (Central Districts, New Zealand).
* William C. Eddy, 87, American naval officer, engineer and inventor.
* Olga Erteszek, 73, Polish-born American lingerie designer and company owner, breast cancer.
* Jan DeGaetani, 56, American mezzo-soprano, leukemia.
* Michael Klinger, 68, British film producer and distributor.
* Robert Penn Warren, 84, American poet and novelist, prostate cancer.
* John Burr Williams, 88, American economist (intrinsic value).

### 16

* Bruno Heck, 72, German politician (Minister of Family Affairs and Youth).
* Georg Schewe, Nazi German officer with the Kriegsmarine.
* Allen Shields, 62, American mathematician, (functional analysis), cancer.
* Anatoly Slivko, 50, Soviet serial killer, executed.
* Steven Stayner, 24, American kidnapping victim, motor cycle collision.
* Anthony Trafford, 57, British politician, Member of Parliament and the House of Lords, lung cancer.

### 17

* Hugh Quincy Alexander, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Leon Culberson, 70, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).
* Richard Hull, 82, British Army field marshall, Chief of the General Staff, cancer.
* Lionel Malamed, 64, American NBA basketballer (Indianapolis Jets), heart attack.
* Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, 70, Romanian philosopher, novelist and dramatist, esophageal cancer.
* Jay Stewart, 71, American television and radio announcer (Let's Make a Deal), suicide.
* Salvador Tió, 77, Puerto Rican poet and writer, coined the term "Spanglish".
* Don Vines, 57, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer (Wakefield Trinity, Great Britain).

### 18

* Alexander Fletcher, 60, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.
* Maryat Lee, 66, American playwright and theatre director, heart disease.
* Peter Phipps, 80, New Zealand vice admiral in the Royal New Zealand Navy, car accident.
* Aleksandra Śląska, 63, Polish film actress.
* Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker and actor (Flaming Creatures), AIDS.

### 19

* Vera Barclay, 95, English scouting pioneer and an author.
* Alma Lavenson, 92, American photographer.
* Philip Sayer, 42, British actor (Xtro), cancer.
* Willie Steele, 66, American long-jumper and Olympic gold medalist, cancer.

### 20

* Ruth Bailey, 76, American actress.
* Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist and revolutionist.
* Charley Booker, 64, American blues singer and guitarist.
* Richie Ginther, 59, American race car driver, heart attack.
* Roy W. Johnson, 97, American football, basketball and baseball coach.
* David Loxton, 46, Canadian-born British and American documentary producer, pancreatic cancer.
* Tuti Indra Malaon, 49, Indonesian actress and dancer (Wadjah Seorang Laki-laki), internal bleeding.
* James Paster, 44, American serial killer, executed.

### 21

* Bill Barron, 62, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
* Garrett H. Byrne, 91, American lawyer and politician, district attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
* Murry Dickson, 73, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals), emphysema.
* Ertem Eğilmez, 60, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
* Corrado Gaipa, 64, Italian actor and voice actor (The Godfather).
* Norman Morley, 90, British Naval Reserve officer.
* Gene Nobles, 76, American radio disc jockey (WLAC).
* Rajani Thiranagama, 35, Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist and feminist, assassinated.

### 22

* Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, 60, Nigerian Executive Governor of defunct Nigerian Bendel State).
* Irving Berlin, 101, Russian-born American songwriter ("Puttin' On the Ritz", "White Christmas"), heart attack.
* Bob Calihan, 71, American NBL basketballer and coach (Detroit Eagles).
* John E. Hunt, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* Chunilal Madan, 76, Kenyan Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
* Haruo Maekawa, 78, Japanese businessman, governor of the Bank of Japan.
* Irving Naxon, 87, American inventor (slow cooker).

### 23

* Austin R. Brunelli, 82, American general in the United States Marine Corps.
* Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, 53, Bangladeshi songwriter and poet.
* Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer.
* John T. Koehler, 85, American navy commander, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer.
* William G. Rohrer, 79, American businessman and politician, mayor of Haddon Township, New Jersey.
* William Traylor, 58, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.

### 24

* Åke Pleijel, 76, Swedish mathematician (Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function).
* Earl E. Stone, 93, American rear admiral in the United States Navy, director of the Armed Forces Security Agency.
* Shri Yogendra, 91, Indian yoga guru, author and poet.

### 25

* Wally Floody, 71, Canadian fighter pilot and prisoner of war ("Great Escape").
* Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
* Nowell Myres, 86, British archaeologist, Bodley's Librarian.

### 26

* Pavlos Bakoyannis, 54, Greek politician, assassinated.
* Jimmy Delaney, 75, Scottish international footballer (Manchester United, Celtic, Scotland).
* Kaj Franck, 77, Finnish designer and applied artist.
* Leo Gottlieb, 93, American lawyer (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton).
* Hemant Kumar, 69, Indian music director and playback singer, heart attack.
* William Post Jr., 88, American actor, pulmonary disease.

### 27

* Sergie Sovoroff, 88, American Aleut educational leader.

### 28

* José Arribas, 68, Spanish professional footballer and manager (Le Mans).
* Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines, cardiac arrest.
* Evan McCaskey, 24, American guitarist (Exodus, Blind Illusion), suicide.
* Michael F. Skerry, 80, American politician, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

### 29

* Gussie Busch, 90, American brewing magnate (Anheuser-Busch), owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, pneumonia.
* Mark Dignam, 80, English actor.
* János Farkas, 47, Hungarian footballer (Vasas, Hungary) and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.
* Geoffrey Sumner, 80, British actor.
* Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 81, French lawyer and far-right politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies, Vichy collaborator.
* Georges Ulmer, 70, Danish-born French composer and actor.
* Gunnar Wiklund, 54, Swedish singer.

### 30

* Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer and ornithologist.
* Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet.
* Manju Dey, 63, Indian actress and director (Carey Saheber Munshi).
* William M. Fairbank, 72, American physicist (low-temperature physics), heart attack.
* Derelys Perdue, 87, American silent-screen actress and dancer.
* Huỳnh Tấn Phát, 76, Vietnamese architect and politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam.
* Virgil Thomson, 92, American composer.
* John T. Walker, 64 American Roman Catholic leader, Bishop of Washington, heart failure.

### Unknown date

* Vittorio Scarpati, 35–36, Italian and American artist and cartoonist, AIDS.