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

## March 1989
### 1

* Mukul Dey, 93, Indian artist (drypoint-etching).
* Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan.
* Odie Payne, 62, American blues drummer.
* Frank W. Preston, 92, English-American engineer, ecologist and conservationist.
* Mark M. Ravitch, 78, American surgeon (surgical staples), colon and prostate cancer.

### 2

* Liviu Cornel Babeș, 46, Romanian electrician and painter, committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
* John Bryans, British actor (Blake's 7).
* Luigi Firpo, 74, Italian historian and politician.
* Tamás Kertész, 59, Hungarian international footballer and coach (Ferencvárosi, Hungary).
* Ernest Steven Monteiro, 84, Singaporean physician, Singapore Ambassador to the United States, Cambodia and Brazil, liver failure.

### 3

* Richard B. Morris, 84, American historian, melanoma.
* Dong Qiwu, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
* Vytautas Vičiulis, 37, Lithuanian painter, self-immolation as a political protest.

### 4

* Agha Ibrahim Akram, 65, Pakistani army general.
* Tiny Grimes, 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis.
* Viktor Nikiforov, 57, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Edward Makuka Nkoloso, 69–70, member of Zambian resistance movement, planned to beat the U.S. and Soviet Union to the moon.

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* Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist, founder of Ghadar Party.
* Daniel Webster Cluff, 72, United States Coast Guard officer, rescued thirty-two survivors from SS Pendleton.
* James Edwin Doyle, 86, American advertising executive, co-founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, emphysema.
* Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor of busts.

### 6

* Harry Andrews, 77, English actor (The Hill, The Agony and the Ecstasy).
* Alla Ilchun, 62, Chinese-born Kazakh fashion model.
* Raja Hossain Khan, 50–51, Bangladeshi composer and violinist, road accident.
* Franca Marzi, 62, Italian film actress (Nights of Cabiria).
* Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi, 79, Indian-born Pakistani freedom fighter.

### 7

* Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter (Houston Wrestling), heart attack.
* Jerry Bywaters, 82, American artist, museum director and art critic.
* Jean Colin, 83, English actress.
* Avis DeVoto, 84, American culinary editor and cook, pancreatic cancer.
* Gi Hyeong-do, 28–29, Korean poet (The Black Leaf in My Mouth).
* Judson Philips, 85, American writer, emphysema.
* Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist.
* Jack Stanton, 67, American NBL basketballer (Anderson Duffey Packers).
* Karel Velebný, 57, Czech jazz musician and composer.

### 8

* Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion.
* Charles Exbrayat, 82, French fiction writer.
* Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer and songwriter (This Ole House), Billy Graham crusader, brain cancer.
* Herman Kogan, 74, American journalist (Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times).
* Robert Lacoste, 90, French socialist politician, member of the National Assembly and senator.
* Chhuttan Lal Meena, 68, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
* Stanley Wijesundera, 65, Sri Lankan professor of Biochemistry, vice chancellor of the University of Colombo, assassinated.

### 9

* Kermit Beahan, 70, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, bombardier on the Bockscar atomic bomb flight, heart attack.
* André Hornez, 83, French lyricist (C'est si bon; Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches).
* Robert Mapplethorpe, 42, American photographer, complications from AIDS.
* Sam Melville, 52, American film and television actor, heart failure.
* Sean O'Sullivan, 37, Canadian politician and Roman Catholic priest, leukemia.
* Mihemed Şêxo, 41, Kurdish folk singer.
* Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist.

### 10

* Selwyn Jepson, 89, English mystery and detective author and screenwriter (Man Running).
* Maurizio Merli, 49, Italian film actor (Catene, Violent Rome), myocardial infarction.

### 11

* William Challee, 84, American actor (Five Easy Pieces).
* Joseph Ferriola, 61, American mobster, boss of the Chicago Outfit, complications after heart transplant.
* James Kee, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* John J. McCloy, 93, American diplomat and presidential advisor, Assistant Secretary of War, pulmonary edema.
* Edward A. Weeks, 91, American writer, editor of The Atlantic.

### 12

* Maurice Evans, 87, English actor (Planet of the Apes), (Bewitched), heart failure.
* Jakob Gimpel, 82, Polish-born concert pianist.
* Kiyoshi Mutō, 86, Japanese architect and structural engineer (Keio Plaza Hotel, Kasumigaseki Building).
* John Baptist Lucius Noel, 99, British mountaineer and filmmaker (1924 British Mount Everest expedition).
* Chet Soda, 80, American businessman, general manager of the Oakland Raiders.
* Carlos Terry, 32, American NBA basketballer (Washington Bullets), car accident.
* Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor.

### 13

* L. E. Baynes, 86, English aeronautical engineer, developed the Scud gliders.
* Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure.
* Salvatore Dell'Isola, 88, Italian conductor.
* Carl von Horn, 85, Swedish Army general.
* James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
* Fahrettin Özdilek, 90–91, Turkish Army general and politician, acting Prime Minister of Turkey.

### 14

* Edward Abbey, 62, American author (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire), environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery.
* Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president of Bechtel Corporation.
* Charles Billingslea, 74, American general in the U.S. Army (Distinguished Service Cross), pneumonia.
* Charles Roy Henderson, 77, American statistician (Best linear unbiased prediction), pioneer in animal breeding.
* Happy Humphrey, 62, American wrestler, heaviest professional wrestler of all time (364 kg), heart attack.
* Mark Kilroy, 21, American kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.
* Omar Knedlik, 72, American inventor and businessman (ICEE frozen drink).
* Timothy Meyers, 43, American actor (Grease), AIDS.
* Egon Morbitzer, 62, German violinist, concertmaster of Staatskapelle Berlin, cancer.
* Gladys Pyle, 98, American politician, U.S. Senator.
* Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria, wife of Charles I.

### 15

* Henry Cass, 85, British director.
* Muhammad Jameel Didi, 73, Maldivian politician, Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

### 16

* Raymond Affleck, 66, Canadian architect, founder of architectural firm Arcop (Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver).
* Georges Blond, 82, French writer, sympathiser with fascism.
* Eddie Buczynski, 42, American archaeologist and follower of Wicca, parasitic infection.
* Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile.
* George Lynn, 73, American composer, conductor and pianist.
* Marcus Morris, 73, English Anglican priest, founded the Eagle weekly comic.
* Alan Redpath, 82, British-American evangelist and author.

### 17

* Beulah Ream Allen, 92, American nurse and physician, civilian physician during World War II (Medal of Freedom).
* Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, 69, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, consequence of surgery.
* Merritt Butrick, 29, American actor (Square Pegs), toxoplasmosis complicated by AIDS.
* Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, 87, Dutch-American mechanical engineer.
* George Vernon Russell, 83, American architect in California.

### 18

* Helen Beebe, 80, American teacher of the deaf and pioneer of auditory-verbal therapy.
* Harold Jeffreys, 97, British geophysicist, opponent of plate tectonics.
* Ryūzō Kikushima, 75, Japanese writer and film producer (Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress).
* Piet Kruiver, 51, Dutch international footballer (Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands).
* George P. Mahoney, 87, American politician.
* William Olander, 38, American curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, AIDS.
* Duane Purvis, 76, American footballer and javelin thrower.
* Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema.

### 19

* Alan Civil, 59, British horn player (BBC Symphony Orchestra), liver and kidney failure.
* Normie Glick, 61, American NBA basketballer (Minneapolis Lakers).
* Ethel Hays, 97, American syndicated cartoonist (Raggedy Ann).
* Charles Lamb, 88, British stage, film, radio and television actor (Mrs Dale's Diary).
* Valérie Quennessen, 31, French theatre and film actress (Summer Lovers, Conan the Barbarian), car accident.
* Joe Rose, 23, Canadian LGBT rights activist, murdered.

### 20

* Archie Bleyer, 79, American song arranger and bandleader (Gordon MacRae show), and founder of Cadence Records.
* Alan Gifford, 78, American-born actor in the UK (2001: A Space Odyssey).
* Francis Russell, 79, American author (Sacco-Vanzetti case).
* Dina Sfat, 50, Brazilian actress.

### 21

* Sneeze Achiu, 86, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles).
* David Cairns, 79, English Navy rear-admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
* Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Calgary Stampeders).
* Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist and anthropologist, lung cancer.
* Milton Frome, 80, American actor, congestive heart failure.
* John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer.

### 22

* Park Am, 64, South Korean actor.
* Ann Harrison, 15, American murder victim.
* Wally Heider, 66, American recording engineer and recording studio owner.
* Gino Piserchio, 44, American actor, composer and musician, AIDS.

### 23

* F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottish psephologist, suicide.
* Adrien Deschryver, 49, Belgian photographer and conservationist, chief warden of Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
* Pavle Gregorić, 96, Yugoslavian communist politician, Minister for Croatia.
* George Marthins, 83, Indian hockey player and gold medalist.
* Bob McTaggart, 43, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
* Berl Repetur, 86–87, Soviet-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.

### 24

* Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados.
* Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist.
* Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist, founder of Kankaria Zoo.
* Edward P. Hurt, 89, American football, basketball and track coach.
* St. Julien R. Marshall, 85, American officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, cardiopulmonary arrest.

### 25

* Sa'id Mufti, 90, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan.
* C. L. Anandan, 55, Indian actor and producer (Vijayapuri Veeran).
* Reginald Le Borg, 86, Austrian film director (San Diego, I Love You), heart attack.

### 26

* Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian general and resistance leader.
* Māris Liepa, 52, Latvian ballet dancer
* Marina Ried, 67, Russian-German stage and film actress.
* Lewis William Walt, 76, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
* Harry Wicks, 83, British socialist activist (Communist Party of Great Britain).
* Hai Zi, 25, Chinese poet, suicide.

### 27

* May Allison, 98, American stage and silent screen actress (David Harum), respiratory failure.
* Don Basham, 62, Bible teacher and author.
* Malcolm Cowley, 90, American writer, heart attack.
* Scott Safran, 21, American video gamer, set world-record score on Asteroids, fall from building.
* Cláudio Santoro, 69, Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist.
* Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director (Blazing Saddles, First Blood), kidney failure.

### 28

* Joseph Adefarasin, 67, Nigerian lawyer and High Court judge.
* Nick Bremigan, 43, American Major League baseball umpire (American League), heart attack.
* Fang Chih, 93, Chinese politician, diplomat, author and Kuomintang official.
* William D. Cox, 79, American businessman and sports executive (Philadelphia Phillies, International Soccer League).
* Ian Dalrymple, 85, British screenwriter, film director and producer (The Lion Has Wings, The Wooden Horse).
* Richard H. Ellis, 69, United States Air Force general, commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.
* Josiah Zion Gumede, 69, president of unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
* Arthur Hill, 94, Irish peer, Marquess of Downshire.
* Madeleine Ozeray, 80, Belgian stage and film actress, cancer.
* Patrick Vallençant, 42, French alpinist and skier, pioneer in ski mountaineering, abseiling accident.
* Lockwood West, 83, British actor, cancer.
* Robert J. Wilke, 74, American film and television actor.

### 29

* Abdullah al-Ahdal, Imam of Belgium, shot.
* Bernard Blier, 73, Argentina-born French actor.
* Chico Che, 43, Mexican musician, singer and songwriter, stroke.
* Fernand Gambiez, 86, French Army general.
* Aleksandr Prokopenko, 35, Belarusian international footballer (Dinamo Minsk, Soviet Union), choked on food.
* Xiao Jinguang, 86, Chinese fleet admiral, Commander of People's Liberation Army Navy, colon cancer.
* Nicolae Steinhardt, 76, Romanian writer and Orthodox monk.
* Charles Taylor, 78, English businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.

### 30

* Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, bone cancer.
* Peter D'Aguiar, 76–77, Guyanese-Portuguese businessman and politician, Minister of Finance.
* Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist (Wonder Woman).
* Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish international footballer (Beerschot, KTP, Finland).
* Huang Wei, 85, Chinese Nationalist military general.

### 31

* Edgar C. Erickson, 92, United States Army major general, Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
* Francis H. Russell, 84, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack.
* Millard Sheets, 81, American artist and architectural designer.
* Carlos Tobalina, 63–64, Peruvian-born American adult filmmaker and actor, suicide.

### Unknown date

* Juliette Compton, 89, American actress (That Hamilton Woman).
* Michael Lubbock, 82, British military officer and businessman.
* Allan H. Mogensen, 87, American industrial engineer.
* Yoshio Shiga, 88, member of the Japanese Communist Party.