1989: Encyclopedia II - 1989 - Deaths

1989 - Deaths

1989 - January

• January 3 - Robert Banks, American chemist (b. 1921)
• January 7 - Frank Adams, British mathematician (b. 1930)
• January 7 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
• January 21 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
• January 23 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (b. 1904)
• January 24 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1946)

1989 - February

• February 1 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1919)
• February 3 - John Cassavetes, American actor and author (b. 1929)
• February 6 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
• February 6 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
• February 9 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese Manga artist, e.g. Astroboy (b. 1928)
• February 11 - George O'Hanlon, American actor and director (b. 1912)
• February 24 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• February 27 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
• February 27 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

1989 - March

• March 6 - Harry Andrews, British actor (b. 1911)
• March 8 - Carl Stuart Hamblen, American musician (b. 1908)
• March 9 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• March 14 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (b. 1927)
• March 14 - Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman (b. 1900)
• March 19 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)

• March 27 - Malcolm Cowley, American author (b. 1898)
• March 27 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)

1989 - April

• April 1 - Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (b. 1903)
• April 12 - Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
• April 15 - Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
• April 16 - Jocko Conlan, baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
• April 21 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
• April 22 - Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• April 26 - Lucille Ball, American entertainer (b. 1911)
• April 30 - Sergio Leone, Italian film director (b. 1929)
• April 30 - Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)

1989 - May

• May 9 - Keith Whitley, American singer (b. 1955)
• May 14 - E.P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (b. 1901)
• May 19 - C.L.R. James, English writer and journalist (b. 1901)
• May 20 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• May 20 - Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
• May 29 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)

1989 - June

• June 3 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian political figure (b. 1900)
• June 4 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
• June 7 - Don the Beachcomber, American restaurateur (b. 1907)
• June 9 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• June 15 - Victor French, American actor and director (b. 1934)
• June 20 - Hilmar Baunsgaard, Danish politician (b. 1920)
• June 27 - Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
• June 28 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)

1989 - July

• July 3 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
• July 10 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• July 11 - Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (b. 1907)
• July 16 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
• July 18 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954)
• July 20 - Forrest H. Anderson, American politician (b. 1913)
• July 22 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
• July 23 - Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931)
• July 30 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)

1989 - August

• August 1 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
• August 4 - Maurice Colbourne, British actor (b. 1939)
• August 12 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• August 13 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
• August 14 - Robert Bernard Anderson, American political figure (b. 1910)
• August 16 - Jean-Hilaire Aubame, French-Gabonese politician (b. 1912)
• August 16 - Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
• August 20 - George Adamson, Indian-born conservationist (assassinated) (b. 1906)
• August 22 - John Clyne, Canadian jurist (b. 1902)
• August 22 - Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor (b. 1929)
• August 29 - Peter Scott, English naturalist, artist, and explorer (b. 1909)
• August 30 - Joe Collins, baseball player (b. 1922)

1989 - September

• September 1 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American President of Yale University and baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
• September 4 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
• September 14 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
• September 17 - Hugh Quincy Alexander, American politician (b. 1911)
• September 22 - Irving Berlin, American composer (b. 1888)
• September 28 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
• September 30 - Horace Alexander, English writer, pacifist, and ornithologist (b. 1889)
• October 4 - Graham Chapman, English comedian (b. 1941)
• October 4 - Secretariat, American racehorse (b. 1970)

1989 - October

• October 6 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• October 9 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• October 11 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1903)
• October 26 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

1989 - November

• November 1 - Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American civil rights activist (b. 1898)
• November 3 - Timoci Bavadra, Fiji physician and politician (b. 1934)
• November 5 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
• November 11 - Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., Canadian minister and librarian (b. 1912)
• November 12 - Sourou Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure (b. 1913)
• November 22 - C.C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
• November 25 - George Cakobau, Fiji Governor General (b. 1912)
• November 26 - Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician (b. 1919)
• November 29 - Gubby Allen, English cricketer (b. 1902)
• November 30 - Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician (b. 1924)

1989 - December

• December 1 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
• December 5 - John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
• December 6 - Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
• December 6 - Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer (b. 1964)
• December 14 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (b. 1921)
• December 16 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
• December 20 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
• December 22 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• December 25 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)

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