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

## February 1989
### 1

* Lillian Boyer, 88, American wing walker.
* James Drake, 81, British civil engineer, pioneer of the national motorway network.
* Blaze Foley, 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet and artist, shot.
* Elaine de Kooning, 70, American artist.
* Grace Hayes, 93, American actress, singer, vaudeville entertainer and nightclub owner.
* J.C. Hoel, 84, American motorcycle racer, and founder of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
* Kenneth Morris, 71, American composer of gospel music.
* Erik Persson (footballer), 79, Swedish international footballer and Olympian.
* John Tootoosis, 89, Canadian First Nations leader.

### 2

* Yuri Bogatyryov, 41, Soviet actor (At Home Among Strangers), medication clash related to heart attack.
* Marie Poland Fish, 88, American oceanographer and marine biologist.
* Vladimír Lulek, 35, Czech family murderer, executed.
* Ondrej Nepela, 38, Czechoslovakian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, lymph node cancer.
* Arnold Nordmeyer, 87, New Zealand politician, Leader of the Opposition.
* Nuno Oliveira, 63, Portuguese equestrian, horse trainer and dressage instructor.
* Walter M. Scott, 82, American set decorator (The Sound of Music, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).
* Marie Syrkin, 89, American writer and Zionist activist.

### 3

* John Cassavetes, 59, Greek-American actor (Johnny Staccato, The Dirty Dozen), cirrhosis of the liver.
* Glenna Collett-Vare, 85, American amateur golfer, inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame.
* Betty Farrington, 90, American actress.
* Joan Grant, 81, English writer of historical novels (Winged Pharaoh).
* Frank Hursley, 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley (General Hospital).
* Nina Kirsanova, 91, Russian-born Yugoslavian ballet dancer.
* Ebbe Langberg, 55, Danish actor and film director.
* John McCauley, 89, Australian Air Force senior commander, Chief of Air Force, stroke.
* Louis H. Narcisse, 67, American religious leader, founder of Mt. Zion Spiritual Church, heart attack.
* Lionel Newman, 73, American conductor, pianist and composer (Academy Award for Best Original Score for Hello, Dolly!), cardiac arrest.
* Kim Sung-jun, 35, South Korean boxer (WBC light flyweight champion), suicide by jumping.

### 4

* Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 68, American mandolinist, half of comedy duo Homer and Jethro, prostate cancer.
* Medford Bryan Evans, 81, college professor and Conservative political activist.
* Thorkild Hansen, 62, Danish novelist (Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves, Islands of Slaves).
* Trevor Lucas, 45, Australian folk singer (Fotheringay), heart attack.
* Grandizo Munis, 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician.
* Ham Seok-heon, 87, Korean Quaker.
* Ferris Webster, 76, American film editor (The Manchurian Candidate, The Great Escape).

### 5

* André Cheuva, 80, French international footballer and manager (Lille OSC).
* Roy Chicago, Nigerian musician and band leader.
* Percy Hoskins, 84, British crime reporter (Daily Express).
* Emrys James, 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor.
* Rajinder Kaur, 57, Indian journalist and politician, shot by terrorists.
* Joe Morrison, 51, American NFL footballer and coach (New York Giants), congestive heart failure.
* Killer Joe Piro, 67, American dance instructor, kidney disease.
* Joe Raposo, 51, American composer, singer and pianist (Sesame Street theme, Bein' Green), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 6

* Suri Bhagavantam, 79, Indian scientist, vice chancellor of Osmania University, director of Indian Institute of Science.
* André Cayatte, 80, French filmmaker (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu).
* Ron Field, 55, American choreographer and dancer (Cabaret), brain lesions.
* Chris Gueffroy, 20, East German, last to be killed by use of firearms at the Berlin Wall.
* Netty Herawaty, 59, Indonesian actress (Rodrigo de Villa).
* Undine Smith Moore, 84, American composer and professor of music (Scenes from the Life of a Martyr), stroke.
* Otto Schulmann, 86, German-born conductor and vocal teacher.
* King Tubby, 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot.
* Barbara W. Tuchman, 77, American historian and author (The Guns of August, Stilwell and the American Experience in China), stroke.

### 7

* Eric Jay, 81, British Anglican priest.
* Giuseppe Puca, 33, Italian criminal, boss of Nuova Camorra Organizzata, murdered after shootout.
* Sixto Rovina, 28, Netherlands Antilles international footballer, heart attack during game.
* Gilbert Simondon, 64, French philosopher.
* William Campbell Steere, 81, American botanist, expert on bryophytes, director of New York Botanical Garden.
* Simon Virsaladze, 80, Georgian ballet, film and opera designer.
* Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia, 69, German nobleman and diplomat.

### 8

* Cyril Luckham, 81, English film, television and theatre actor (Doctor Who, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em).
* Begum Khurshid Mirza, 70, Pakistani television and film actress.
* Webster B. Todd, 89, American Chairman of New Jersey Republican State Committee, heart attack.

### 9

* Ken Adachi, 59–60, Canadian writer and literary critic (Toronto Star).
* Bill Dalley, 87, New Zealand rugby union player (Canterbury, All Blacks).
* Osamu Tezuka, 60, Japanese artist and animator (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion), stomach cancer.

### 10

* Darnley Alexander, 69, Nigerian jurist, Chief Justice of Nigeria.
* Irving Brown, 77, American trade unionist (Presidential Medal of Freedom).
* Agustín Ramos Calero, 69, decorated Puerto Rican soldier in the U.S. Army.
* Wayne Hays, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
* Panini Ilangakoon, 69, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament.
* Dan Kelly, 52, Canadian-American sportscaster, lung cancer.
* Emily Kimbrough, 89, American author and journalist (Our Hearts Were Young and Gay).
* Herbert Ryman, 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer (Sleeping Beauty Castle), cancer.

### 11

* Charles L. Bolte, 93, United States Army general, vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, stroke.
* T. E. B. Clarke, 81, British screenwriter (The Lavender Hill Mob).
* Leon Festinger, 69, American social psychologist (cognitive dissonance, social comparison theory), cancer.
* Roland Gross, 80, American film editor and television editor (None but the Lonely Heart).
* George O'Hanlon, 76, American actor, comedian and writer (The Jetsons), stroke.
* Cecil C. Steiner, 92, American dentist (Steiner method of analysis).
* Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi.
* Katharine Lane Weems, 89, American sculptor (Dolphins of the Sea, Lotta Fountain).

### 12

* Thomas Bernhard, 58, Austrian novelist and playwright (Correction, Extinction), heart attack.
* Jorge Romero Brest, 83, Argentinian art critic.
* Attilio Dottesio, 79, Italian film actor and singer.
* Pat Finucane, 39, Irish lawyer, murdered.
* Pandit Narendra Sharma, 75, Indian writer and poet (Satyam Shivam Sundaram theme).
* Bill Speer, 46, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Boston Bruins), snowmobile accident.

### 13

* Ernestine Barrier, 80, American stage, film and television actress (Project Moonbase).
* Claude Dupuy, 87, French Roman Catholic archbishop.
* Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, 79, member of the Greek Royal family.
* Hip Linkchain, 52, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (Change My Blues, That Will Never Do), mesothelioma cancer.
* Aubrey Menen, 76, British author and theatre critic.
* Richard Roud, 59, American writer on film, co-founder of the New York Film Festival.
* Geoff Selby, 23, Australian rugby league footballer (Illawarra Steelers, St. George Dragons), car accident.
* Dave Tarras, appr. 94, Ukrainian-American clarinetist and bandleader, pneumonia.

### 14

* James Bond, 89, American ornithologist, curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Birds of the West Indies).
* Vincent Crane, 45, English keyboardist (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster), suicide by drug overdose.
* Krishnarao Dhulap, 68, leader of Peasants and Workers Party of India.
* Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič, 86, Belarusian politician, president of the government-in-exile of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

### 15

* Hüseyin Akbaş, 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist.
* Sita Devi, 71, Indian Princess Consort of Vuyyur, the "Indian Wallis Simpson".
* Daniel Fox, 61, American polymer chemist (LEXAN).
* Robert Kerns, 55, American baritone (Vienna State Opera).
* Lee E. McMahon, 57, American computer scientist (sed stream editor).
* Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.
* Sabo Bakin Zuwo, 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State.

### 16

* Andy Black, 72, Scottish international footballer (Manchester City, Scotland).
* Ida Ehre, 88, Austrian-German actor, theatre director and manager, heart attack.
* Mirza Abdul Halim, 23, Singaporean police constable, murdered.
* Paco Lagerstrom, 74, Swedish-American applied mathematician and aeronautical engineer (Caltech).

### 17

* Rudolf Brill, 89, German chemist.
* Francesco Buccitelli, 66, Italian artist, mayor of Pacentro.
* Ian Fraser, 78, British judge, member of the House of Lords, car accident.
* Lefty Gomez, 80, American Major League baseball player (New York Yankees), congestive heart failure.
* Guy Laroche, 67, French fashion designer.
* Marguerite Roberts, 83, American screenwriter, blacklisted for not cooperating with House Un-American Activities Committee, arteriosclerosis.
* Hanne Sobek, 88, German international footballer (Hertha BSC, Germany).

### 18

* John Bailey, 76, British screen and TV actor (The Forsyte Saga).
* Mildred Burke, 73, American professional wrestler, women's world champion, stroke.
* Dixie Deans, 75, Royal Air Force sergeant, Second World War bomber pilot.
* Dina Halpern, 79, Polish-born American actress.
* Kathleen Hite, 71, American writer for radio and television (Gunsmoke, The Waltons).

### 19

* Edward Beetham, 74, British colonial official, Resident Commissioner in Swaziland, Governor of Trinidad and Tobago.
* Rick Burks, 28, American musician and actor (Blood Diner), car accident.
* Eric F. Goldman, 72, American historian, presidential advisor (The Open Mind).
* Alec Merrison, 64, British physicist, vice-chancellor of University of Bristol, director of Lloyds Bank.
* Jack de Sequeira, 73, Indian politician, Leader of the Opposition of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly.
* Rosa Slade Gragg, 84, American activist and politician.

### 20

* Julio César Chaves, 81, Paraguayan historian.
* Percy Chen, 88, Trinidad-born Chinese lawyer, founding member of Hong Kong Bar Association.
* Erika Köth, 63, German operatic soprano.
* Anthony Leeds, 64, American anthropologist, heart attack.
* Betty Mars, 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping.
* Aleksandr Medvedkin, 88, Soviet film director (Happiness).
* Manuel Rosas, 76, Mexican international footballer (Atlante F.C., Mexico).

### 21

* Robert Dorning, 75, English musician, ballet dancer and actor, diabetes.
* Sándor Márai, 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist (Embers).
* Otar Taktakishvili, 64, Georgian composer and conductor (Sonata for Flute and Piano, Mindia).
* Alex Thépot, 82, French international footballer and Olympian (Red Star FC, France).

### 22

* Roxanne Arlen, 58, American film and stage actress.
* Harry Brand, 93, American press agent, credited with the fame of Shirley Temple, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, heart attack.
* Raymond Gower, 72, British politician, member of the House of Commons, heart attack.
* Abel Wolman, 96, American engineer, pioneer in sanitary engineering.
* Joan Woodbury, 73, American actress (The Eagle's Brood, Brenda Starr, Reporter).

### 23

* David Mowbray Balme, 76, British professor, Principal of the University College of the Gold Coast.
* Hans Hellmut Kirst, 74, German novelist (Die Nacht der Generale).
* Ramito, 73, Puerto Rican composer (Qué Bonita Bandera), suicide by gunshot.
* Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, 82, Tibetan nobleman and statesman, Finance Minister of Tibet, stomach cancer.
* Roy Tyner, 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot.

### 24

* Sparky Adams, 94, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Paul M. Bator, 59, Hungarian-born American legal scholar and Supreme Court advocate, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.
* Norris Cotton, 88, American politician, US senator.
* Joe Harvey, 70, English footballer and manager (Newcastle United, Bradford City).
* Margo Lion, 89, Ottoman-French singer and actress (Threepenny Opera).
* Paulaseer, 68, Indian preacher, 'faith healer'.
* Mallica Reynolds, 78, Jamaican artist and religious leader (Shining the Spring).
* William Thayer Tutt, 76, American ice hockey and figure skating executive.

### 25

* Paula Banholzer, 87, German love interest of Bertolt Brecht.
* Angna Enters, 91, American dancer, mime, painter and writer (Lost Angel, Tenth Avenue Angel).
* Robert Foulk, 80, American television and film actor (Lassie).

### 26

* Roy Eldridge, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
* Joseph Fenton, appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army (body found on this date).
* Reunald Jones, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
* Mouloud Mammeri, 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident.
* Clayton Robson, 87, Indian-born English first-class cricketer.

### 27

* Paul Oswald Ahnert, 91, German astronomer (Kalender für Sternfreunde).
* Shiba P. Chatterjee, 86, Indian Professor of Geography.
* Mauricio Garcés, 62, Mexican actor and comedian (Fray Don Juan, Modisto de señoras).
* Kim Hyun-chul, 87, Korean independence activist and politician, Prime Minister of South Korea.
* Konrad Lorenz, 85, Austrian zoologist and author (Man Meets Dog), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Nazi supporter.
* Sayuti Melik, 80, Indonesian political agitant (Proclamation of Indonesian Independence).
* Gilberto Molina, 52, Colombian emerald magnate and drug trafficker (Medellín cartel), murdered.
* Joe Silver, 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack.

### 28

* Richard Armour, 82, American poet and author.
* Bernard Beryl Brodie, 81, English-born American biochemical and neurochemical pharmacology scientist.
* Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, 78, Brazilian lexicographer, translator and writer (Aurélio Dictionary).
* Hermann Burger, 46, Swiss poet and novelist (Die Wasserfallfinsternis von Badgastein), suicide.
* Everett E. Hatcher, 46, American Special Agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration, shot during undercover operation.
* Douglas Kendrew, 79, British army general and rugby union player (Leicester, England), Governor of Western Australia.
* Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, 100, Indian yoga teacher.
* Alton C. Parker, 81, Canadian police officer, first black Canadian detective.
* Pak Se-yong, 86, North Korean poet and politician (Aegukka – North Korean national anthem).