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

## May 1989
### 1

* Antonio Janigro, 71, Italian cellist and conductor.
* Sally Kirkland, 76, fashion editor at Vogue and Life, emphysema.
* Scooter Lowry, 69, American child actor (Our Gang). (body found on this date)
* Marion Mack, 87, American film actress (The General), heart failure.
* Edward Ochab, 82, Polish communist politician, Chairman of the Polish Council of State.
* Muneyoshi Tokugawa, 91, Japanese army officer and politician.
* Douglass Watson, 68, American actor (Another World), heart attack.
* David Webster, 44, South African anti-apartheid activist, assassinated.

### 2

* Bennie Benjamin, 81, Virgin Islands–born American songwriter (Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Wheel of Fortune)).
* James Crabe, 57, American cinematographer (Rocky, The China Syndrome, The Karate Kid), complications of AIDS.
* Veniamin Kaverin, 87, Russian writer and dramatist.
* Gerald Scarpelli, 60–61, American mobster and hitman (Chicago Outfit), suicide.
* Giuseppe Siri, 82, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Genoa.
* Maki Yūkō, 95, Japanese mountain climber.

### 3

* Sheikh Abbas, 76–77, Algerian diplomat and writer, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris.
* Gordon Dailley, 77, Canadian-born British ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
* Christine Jorgensen, 62, American trans-gender woman, actress and singer, bladder and lung cancer.
* Muriel Ostriche, 92, American silent-screen actress.
* Roland Robinson, 82, British politician (Member of Parliament), and diplomat (Governor of Bermuda).
* William Squire, 72, Welsh actor (Callan).

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* Adnan Khayr Allah, 49, Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law, Minister of Defence, helicopter crash.
* Chalam, 59, Indian film actor (Mattilo Manikyam).
* Morris Copeland, 93, American economist (flow of funds analysis).
* Larry Fleisher, 58, American attorney and sports agent, founded the National Basketball Players Association, heart attack.
* John R. Heller Jr., 84, American director of the National Cancer Institute, known for the Tuskegee syphilis study.
* Herschel C. Loveless, 77, American politician, Governor of Iowa, lung cancer.
* James McKeown, 88, Irish missionary in the Gold Coast (Ghana), founded the Church of Pentecost.
* Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, 68, Indian writer.
* Lydia Pasternak Slater, 87, Soviet research chemist and poet.
* Jean-Marie Tjibaou, 53, French New Caledonian politician, leader of Kanak independence movement, assassinated.
* Evelle J. Younger, 70, American lawyer, Attorney General of California.

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* Hermann Hölter, 89, German modern pentathlete, Nazi German army general.
* Sister Mary Leo, 94, New Zealand religious sister, trained some of the world's best sopranos.
* Wolfgang Neuss, 65, German actor and Kabarett artist, cancer.
* Jennifer Hodge de Silva, 38, Canadian filmmaker.
* Naval Tata, 84, Indian industrialist and philanthropist.
* Stefan E. Warschawski, 85, Russian-born American mathematician (conformal maps, minimal surfaces, harmonic functions).

### 6

* Earl Blaik, American football player and coach (United States Military Academy).
* Tally Brown, 64, American singer and actress.
* Adolfo Constanzo, 26, Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader, assisted suicide.
* Thakin Soe, 82–83, Burmese politician, founding member of the Communist Party of Burma.
* L. D. Weldon, 80–81, American track and field coach of decathletes.

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* Miranda Campa, 75, Swiss-Italian actress.
* Frank Cluskey, 59, Irish politician, leader of the Labour Party, cancer.
* Willie Covan, 91, American tap dancer, actor and vaudeville performer (The Duke Is Tops).
* Darío Echandía, 91, Colombian politician, acting president of Colombia, Colombian ambassador to the U.K.
* Earl J. Hamilton, 89–90, American historian.
* Mills Lane, 77, American banker (Citizens & Southern National Bank).
* John Whittet, 63, American officer in the U.S. Navy, drowned.

### 8

* Hendrik Allik, 88, Estonian politician (Estonian Communist Party).
* Felice Mario Boano, 85–86, Italian automobile designer and coachbuilder (Fiat).
* Mariga Guinness, 56, English-born architectural conservationist, co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society, heart attack.
* Andreas Hillgruber, 64, German historian, throat cancer.
* Tony Lucadello, 76, American professional baseball scout, suicide by shooting.
* Ruggero Maccari, 69, Italian screenwriter (Profumo di donna, La Famiglia).
* Rudolf Uhlenhaut, 82, British-German engineer (Mercedes-Benz).

### 9

* Karl Brunner, 73, Swiss economist.
* Timothy Farrell, 66, American actor (Jail Bait, The Violent Years, Glen or Glenda)
* Alex Fraser, 72, Canadian politician, member of the B.C. Legislative Assembly.
* Fred Halsted, 47, American gay pornographic film director and actor, suicide.
* Enrique Lucero, 68, Mexican actor (Canoa: A Shameful Memory).
* Kenneth A. Roberts, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
* Keith Whitley, 34, American country music singer and songwriter (When You Say Nothing at All, I'm No Stranger to the Rain), alcohol poisoning.

### 10

* Wilhelm Bleckwenn, 82, Nazi German Wehrmacht general.
* Joseph Brennan, 88, American ABL basketballer (Brooklyn Visitations).
* Richard Green, 52, American teacher, New York City Schools Chancellor, cardiac arrest due to asthma.
* Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, 35, Yugoslavian mountaineer, first Macedonian to climb Mount Everest.
* Stewart Perowne, 87, British diplomat and archaeologist of the Middle East.
* Kalu Rinpoche, 84, Tibetan Buddhist lama and teacher.
* Woody Shaw, 44, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, kidney failure.
* Hassler Whitney, 82, American mathematician (singularity theory), stroke.

### 11

* Vin Brown, 67, Australian rules footballer.
* Xiao Wangdong, 78, Chinese Communist revolutionary and a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army.

### 12

* Nicholas Wilder, 51–52, American art dealer, complications from AIDS.

### 13

* Jack Grout, 79, American golfer.
* Charlie Mutton, 98, Australian politician.
* Bjørn Puggaard-Müller, 67, Danish film actor.

### 14

* Nikifor Kalchenko, 83, Soviet politician.
* Joe Primeau, 83, Canadian professional ice hockey player.
* Hans Stubbe, 87, German agronomist and plant breeder.
* E. P. Taylor, 88, Canadian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist.

### 15

* Johnny Green, 80, American songwriter, conductor and pianist.
* Noel O'Brien, 56, Australian rules footballer.
* Noriko Tsukase, 43, Japanese voice actress and singer, rectal cancer.

### 16

* Lamar Allen, 74, American college football player and coach, and Negro League baseballer.
* Ralph Gibson, 83, Australian communist organiser and writer.
* Josephine R. Hilgard, 83, American developmental psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
* Théodore Strawinsky, 82, Russian-Swiss painter.

### 17

* Hallvard Eika, 68, Norwegian politician, member of the Norwegian Parliament.
* Walter Gross, 85, German actor.
* Finn Juhl, 77, Danish architect, interior and industrial designer.
* Lucia Moholy, 95, Austro-Hungarian–born photographer and publications editor.
* Specs Toporcer, 90, American Major League baseballer, injuries sustained from a fall.

### 18

* Donald Hiss, 82, American legal secretary, younger brother of Alger Hiss.
* Hermann Höcherl, 77, German politician and lawyer, member of the Nazi Party.
* Ed McIlvenny, 64, Scottish footballer who represented the United States.
* Dorothy Ruth, 67, American daughter of US baseballer Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings.

### 19

* Anton Diffring, 72, German actor, cancer.
* Abel Herzberg, 95, Dutch lawyer and writer.
* John J. Muccio, 89, Italian-American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Iceland and South Korea.
* Gerd Oswald, 79, German director of American film and television, cancer.
* Yiannis Papaioannou, 79, Greek composer and teacher.
* Robert Webber, 64, American actor, Lou Gehrig's disease.

### 20

* John Hicks, 85, British economist, Nobel Memorial laureate in Economic Sciences.
* Pavel Juráček, 53, Czech screenwriter and film director.
* Lyn Murray, 79, English-American composer, conductor and arranger of music, cancer.
* Warren G. Magnuson, 84, American lawyer and politician, President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
* Gilda Radner, 42, American actress, comedian, writer and singer, ovarian cancer.
* Mike Reinbach, 39, American Major League baseballer, car accident.
* Gōgen Yamaguchi, 80, Japanese martial artist, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

### 21

* Tito Colliander, 85, Finnish Eastern Orthodox Christian writer.
* Margot Zemach, 57, American illustrator of children's books, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

### 22

* Carlton Massey, 59, American NFL footballer.
* Rush Rhees, 84, American philosopher.
* Robert Richardson Sears, 80, American psychologist.

### 23

* Ansa Ikonen, 75, Finnish film and theatre actress.
* James Kay Thomas, 87, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of West Virginia.
* George Thomas, 61, American NFL footballer.
* Georgy Tovstonogov, 73, Russian-Georgian theatre director, heart attack.
* Earle Wilson, 73, American triple-jumper and Olympian.

### 24

* S. K. Dey, 82, Indian politician.
* Guus Dräger, 71, Dutch footballer.
* Tom Harper, 86, American football player and coach.
* Steve McCall, 55, American jazz drummer.
* Tripti Mitra, 63, Indian actress.

### 25

* Ben H. Brown Jr., 75, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, cancer.
* Ab DeMarco, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Jean Despeaux, 73, French boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
* Soma Wickremanayake, 74, Sri Lankan educator and politician, member of the Ceylonese Parliament.

### 26

* Phineas Newborn Jr., 57, American jazz pianist, growth on lungs.
* Don Revie, 61, English international footballer and manager, motor neurone disease.
* Kazuko Takatsukasa, 59, elder sister to Emperor Akihito of Japan, heart failure.

### 27

* Jerry Anderson, 35, American NFL footballer, drowned.
* Jess Sweetser, 87, American golfer.
* Arseny Tarkovsky, 81, Russian poet and translator.

### 28

* Wally Anderzunas, 43, American basketballer.
* Abbas Nalbandian, 39–40, Iranian playwright, suicide.
* Iván Palazzese, 27, Italian-Venezuelan motorcycle racer, racing accident.
* Baltasar Lopes da Silva, 82, Portuguese writer, poet and linguist, cerebrovascular disease.
* John M. Systermans, Belgian-missionary and priest.
* Muttathu Varkey, 76, Indian novelist, short story writer and poet.

### 29

* Nora Barlow, 103, British botanist and geneticist, granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
* John Cipollina, 45, American guitarist, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
* George C. Homans, 78, American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, heart ailment.
* Joseph Van Ingelgem, 77, Belgian international footballer.
* Donald L. Katz, 81, American chemist and chemical engineer.
* Tariq Mehmood, 50, Pakistani military officer of Pakistan Army, parachute accident.
* Giuseppe Patanè, 57, Italian opera conductor, heart attack.
* Bob Waters, 50, American footballer, Lou Gehrig's disease.

### 30

* Jane Fauntz, 78, American swimmer and diver, and Olympic medalist, leukemia.
* James Harry Lacey, 72, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot in World War II.
* Thoreau MacDonald, 88, Canadian illustrator, graphic and book designer, and artist.
* Zinka Milanov, 83, Croatian operatic dramatic soprano, stroke.
* Claude Pepper, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stomach cancer.

### 31

* Heinz Hasselberg, 75, German cyclist and Olympian.
* Edward Hubbard, 51, English architectural historian, ankylosing spondylitis.
* C. L. R. James, 88, Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist writer, chest infection.
* Owen Lattimore, 88, American Orientalist and writer.
* Raisa Orlova, 70, Russian writer and American studies scholar.
* G. Vanmikanathan, 88, Indian scholar and author.

### Unknown date

* John Sutton, 60–61, Irish hurler.