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

## August 1989
### 1

* Don Heffner, 78, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns).
* John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-born Canadian theatre director (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), AIDS.
* John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia.

### 2

* Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer and songwriter.

### 3

* Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer ("The Patriot Game"), pancreatic cancer.
* Antonia Brico, 87, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist.
* William Larimer Mellon Jr., 79, American philanthropist and physician, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
* Peggy Montgomery, 84, American silent-screen actress (Arizona Days).
* Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist (crystal dislocation).
* Colston Westbrook, 51, American teacher and linguist, cancer.

### 4

* Paolo Baffi, 77, Italian banker and economist, governor of the Bank of Italy.
* Amador Bendayán, 68, Venezuelan actor and entertainer (Sábado Sensacional).
* Maurice Colbourne, 49, English actor (Howards' Way), heart attack.
* Geoffrey Cross, 84, British barrister and judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
* Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist (Disney comics).
* Larry Parnes, 59, British pop manager, meningitis.
* Taghi Riahi, 78, Iranian officer in Iranian Imperial Army.
* W. Wallace Smith, 88, American grandson of Joseph Smith Jr., president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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* John Kinard, 52, American social activist and pastor, director of Anacostia Museum, myelofibrosis.
* John Larsen, 75, Norwegian rifle shooter and Olympic gold medalist.
* Max Macon, 73, American Major League baseballer (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Helen Thomas, 22, Welsh peace activist (Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp), struck by police vehicle.
* Stacey Toran, 27, American NFL footballer (Los Angeles Raiders), car accident.

### 6

* Hubert Beuve-Méry, 87, French journalist and newspaper editor (Le Monde), complications from a fall.
* Beattie Casely-Hayford, 67, Ghanaian founder of the National Dance Ensemble, director of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.
* Don Clark, 65, American footballer and coach (San Francisco 49ers), heart attack.
* Nat Levine, 90, American film producer (Mascot Pictures).
* P.R. Olgiati, 87, American politician, mayor of Chattanooga.
* Frank Sinkovitz, 66, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Steelers) and umpire.

### 7

* Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, 73, Mexican politician, governor of Sinaloa.
* Gerhard de Kock, 63, South African Reserve Bank governor, colon cancer.
* Robert Jani, 55, American event producer, Lou Gehrig's disease.
* Mickey Leland, 44, American politician, anti-poverty activist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.
* Robert Stevens, 68, American television and movie director (Suspense), heart attack after beating.
* Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director, co-founder of Atelje 212, cancer.

### 8

* Irving Cottler, 71, American percussionist, heart attack.
* Robert Kaske, 68, American professor of medieval literature, brain tumour.
* Enrico Lorenzetti, 78, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, 250 cc World Championship winner.
* Brian Naylor, 66, British racing driver, boating accident.
* Bobby Oxspring, 70, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
* George Papp, 73, American comics artist (Superboy).
* Mary Peppin, 76, half of a British twin-sister piano duo act, piano teacher at Guildhall School of Music.
* Audrey Russell, 83, British BBC Radio journalist and war reporter, Alzheimer's disease.
* Maja Sacher, 93, Swiss art collector and philanthropist.
* Morris Shenker, 82, American lawyer, known for connection to Jimmy Hoffa, pneumonia.
* László Willinger, 80, German-born American photographer, heart failure.

### 9

* Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor.
* K. Gunaratnam, 72, Sri Lankan film producer, murdered.
* Duncan MacPherson, 23, Canadian ice hockey player, body found in melting glacier.
* Kathleen Maguire, 63, American actress (The Time of the Cuckoo, A Flame in the Wind), esophageal cancer.

### 10

* H. Montgomery Hyde, 81, Irish barrister, politician and author, Member of Parliament.
* George Ignatieff, 75, Russian-born Canadian diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations.
* Pierre Matisse, 89, French-born American art dealer.

### 11

* Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, 69–72, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan.
* Bill Cody Jr., 64, American child actor, suicide.
* Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* John Meillon, 55, Australian actor (Crocodile Dundee, The Fourth Wish), cirrhosis.
* Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist ("Late Freight").
* Richard Ward, 71, British army general, Commander British Forces in Hong Kong.

### 12

* Mo Anthoine, 50, British mountaineer, brain tumour.
* Emyr Estyn Evans, 84, Welsh geographer and archaeologist.
* Henri Goetz, 79, American-born French painter, member of the French Resistance.
* Samuel Okwaraji, 25, Nigerian international footballer (Nigeria), heart failure.
* William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics (Shockley diode), eugenicist, prostate cancer.
* Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians).

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* Willy De Bruyn, 75, Belgian trans-gender cyclist.
* Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentinian actor, director and tango singer (Las Aguas Bajan Turbias).
* Tim Richmond, 34, American race car driver, AIDS.
* Larkin I. Smith, 45, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.

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* Robert Bernard Anderson, 79, American politician, secretary of the Navy and Treasury, throat cancer.
* Bergen (Belgin Sarılmışer), 31, Turkish singer, shot.
* Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer (Sacramento Kings), suicide.
* Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor.
* Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City.

### 15

* William Sydney Atkins, 87, English founder of Atkins engineering consultancy.
* Wolfram Eberhard, 80, German-born Turkish and American professor of sociology.
* Minoru Genda, 84, Japanese navy general noted for planning attack on Pearl Harbor, and politician.
* Elvy Kalep, 90, Estonian aviator, country's first female pilot.
* Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
* Earl B. Ruth, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, governor of American Samoa.
* Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, 92, Greek army general, chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff, ambassador to Yugoslavia.

### 16

* Jean-Hilaire Aubame, 76, Gabonese politician, Foreign Minister of Gabon.
* Amanda Blake, 60, American actress (Gunsmoke), AIDS.
* Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist, pederast.
* Anton Nilson, 101, Swedish terrorist and convicted murderer.

### 17

* Jack Chrisman, 61, American drag racer.
* Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer and television presenter (Sooty).
* Stavro Skëndi, 83–84, Albanian-American linguist and historian, Parkinson's disease.
* Fred Frankhouse, 85, American Major League baseballer (Boston Braves).
* Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist.

### 18

* Robert Buckner, 83, American screenwriter and short story writer (Dodge City, Yankee Doodle Dandy).
* Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated.
* Yūji Koseki, 80, Japanese song and film score composer ("Roei no Uta", "The Bells of Nagasaki").
* Imre Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic gold medalist.
* Bert Oosterbosch, 32, Dutch racing cyclist, cardiac arrest.
* Waldemar Franklin Quintero, 48, Colombian police officer, commander of National Police, assassinated.
* Chrissie White, 94, British silent-screen actress (The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss), heart attack.

### 19

* Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense, governor of Negros and Siquijor Islands.
* Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer (Miami Dolphins), heart attack.
* Joseph A. Pechman, 71, American economist and taxation scholar, president of the American Economic Association, heart attack.

### 20

* George Adamson, 83, British wildlife conservationist and author in Kenya (Elsa the lioness), murdered.
* Clarence Glacken, 80, American professor of Geography.
* H. B. Halicki, 48, American director, stunt driver and actor (Gone in 60 Seconds), accident while filming.
* Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer (Laura).
* Tenryū Saburō, 85, Japanese sumo wrestler (Shunjuen Incident).
* Syd van der Vyver, 69, South African racing driver.

### 21

* William F. Bolger, 66, American Postmaster General, president of the Air Transport Association of America.
* Scott Fenton, 24, Australian NBL basketballer (Sydney Supersonics, Perth Wildcats), car crash.
* Heikki H. Herlin, 88, Finnish engineer, manager of Kone elevators.
* Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, 78, German geographer, explorer and writer.
* Raul Seixas, 44, Brazilian rock singer, songwriter and producer, cardiac arrest.
* Phyllis Terrell, 91, American suffragist and civil rights activist.
* Ted Wilks, 73, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals).

### 22

* Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, 85, British physician and politician.
* Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress (Mannequin in Red).
* Sunbeam Mitchell, 82, American businessman, hotel and nightclub owner, heart attack.
* Huey P. Newton, 47, American political activist, founder of the Black Panther party, probable murderer, murdered.
* Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician.
* Gerhard Reinhardt, 73, East German politician and German Resistance fighter.
* Vlasta Vraz, 89, Czech-American relief worker, editor and fundraiser.
* Diana Vreeland, 85, American fashion columnist and editor, editor in chief at Vogue, heart attack.

### 23

* Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, 45, Sudanese poet.
* P. O. Ackley, 86, American gunsmith.
* Al Cass, 65, American musician and musical inventor.
* Walter de Sousa, 68, Ugandan-born Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Katharina Jacob, 82, German member of the anti-Nazi German Resistance movement.
* R. D. Laing, 61, Scottish psychiatrist (psychosis, schizophrenia), heart attack.
* Nebojša Mitrić, 58, Yugoslavian sculptor and painter, suicide.

### 24

* Jacques Godechot, 82, French historian of the French Revolution.
* Marjorie Pratt, 89, British aristocrat.
* Feliks Topolski, 82, Polish-born British expressionist painter and draughtsman, official war artist.

### 25

* Gunnar Berg, 80, Swiss-born Danish composer.
* Jim Brideweser, 62, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox).
* Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor.
* Al Cherney, 56, Canadian fiddler, lung cancer.
* Yan Frenkel, 68, Ukrainian composer and performer.
* Jerry Masslo, 29, South African refugee.
* Sarjoo Pandey, 69, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
* Roman Palester, 81, Polish composer of classical music.
* Jean-Louis Verdier, 54, French mathematician (Verdier duality), car accident.
* Bronwen Wallace, 44, Canadian poet and short story writer, cancer.
* A. J. Witono, 64, Indonesian military officer and diplomat, ambassador to Japan.

### 26

* Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet and writer.
* Juanita Brooks, 91, American historian and author, Alzheimer's disease.
* Nick Nuccio, 87, American politician, mayor of Tampa, Florida.
* Irving Stone, 86, American writer (Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy), heart failure.

### 27

* Gloria Milland, 48, Italian actress.
* Eckart Muthesius, 85, German architect and interior designer (Manik Bagh palace).
* Ramnandan Mishra, 83–84, Indian independence fighter.
* Burhan Shahidi, 94, Russian-born Chinese politician, governor of Xinjiang.
* Bill Shirley, 68, American tenor, actor and producer (Sleeping Beauty, My Fair Lady), lung cancer.

### 28

* Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist, CIA operative, lung cancer.
* Robert Macintosh, 91, New Zealand–born British anaesthetist.
* Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS.
* John Steptoe, 38, American author and illustrator for children’s books (Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters), AIDS.

### 29

* Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 66, Argentinian-born American fashion designer, lung cancer.
* Pua Kealoha, 86, Hawaiian-born American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
* Lorenzo Natali, 66, Italian politician, Minister of Public Works.
* Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist and Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack.

### 30

* Joe Collins, 66, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees).
* Joe de Santis, 80, American actor and sculptor (A Cold Wind in August), pulmonary disease.
* Seymour Krim, 67, American author, suicide.
* Dinkar Mehta, 81, Indian politician and trade unionist, leader of the Communist Party of India, mayor of Ahmedabad.
* Dink Roberts, 94, American banjo player.
* Dorothy Schiff, 86, American businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post.
* Ekkehard Tertsch, 83, Spanish-Austrian journalist and Nazi diplomat.

### 31

* Maribel Arrieta, 55, Salvadoran television host and model, Miss El Salvador, cancer.
* Michele Cascella, 96, Italian artist.
* Moe Dalitz, 89, American gangster, businessman and casino owner, heart and kidney failure.
* Mickey Hawks, 49, American singer and pianist ("Bip Bop Boom").
* Vladimir Littauer, 97, Russian and American horseback riding master and author.
* Claire Luce, 85, American actress, dancer and singer (Up the River, Under Secret Orders).
* Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major League baseballer (Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox).
* Gerhard Scholz, 85, German professor and writer (Philology, German studies).
* Heen Banda Udurawana, 88, Sri Lankan politician, member of the Senate of Ceylon.
* Ruth Wood, 73, British racehorse owner, Epsom Derby winner.

### Unknown date

* Bill Ainslie, 55, South African artist.
* Louis Dolivet, 81, Austro-Hungarian–born French film producer and alleged Soviet spy, editor of Free World.