Deaths in December 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1989
1
- Alvin Ailey, 58, American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist, AIDS.[1]
- Leo Amino, 78, Japanese-American sculptor.[2]
- Danilo Atienza, 38, Filipino pilot in the Philippine Air Force, plane crash.
- Michał Antoniewicz, 92, Polish equestrian and dual Olympic medalist.[3]
- André Charles Biéler, 93, Swiss-born Canadian painter.
- Billy Lyall, 36, Scottish singer, keyboard player and flautist with The Alan Parsons Project and the Bay City Rollers, AIDS.[4]
- Nikolai Patolichev, 81, Soviet politician, Soviet Minister of Trade.[5]
- Bill Stout, 62, American journalist, cardiac arrest.
- Mitchell Ucovich, 74, American NFL football player.[6]
- William Vandivert, 77, American photographer.
2
- Karl-Erik Alberts, 78, Swedish cinematographer.
- Harland Bartholomew, 100, American civil engineer and urban planner with St Louis, Missouri.[7]
- Norman Davis, 76, New Zealand-born professor of English language and literature.[8]
- Keith Ewert, 71, Australian accountant and politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives.
- Ruth Mary Reynolds, 73, American political and civil rights activist.[9]
- Oldřich Hanč, 74, Czechoslovakian speed skater and Olympian.[10]
- Ruth Mary Reynolds, 73, American political and civil rights activist.[11]
- Richard Shannon, 69, American film and television actor.
- William Taylour, 85, British archaeologist.[12]
3
- Sourou-Migan Apithy, 76, Beninese politician, president of Dahomey (Benin).[13]
- Mario Astorri, 69, Italian footballer and coach.[14]
- Connie B. Gay, 75, American country musician, cancer.[15]
- Fernando Martín, 27, Spanish professional basketballer, five-time Spanish swimming champion, traffic collision.[16]
- Syed Safdar Hussain Najafi, 57, Pakistani religious leader.
- Jean-Paul Moulinot, 77, French actor.[17]
- Alexander Obukhov, 71, Soviet physicist and applied mathematician.[18]
- Paul Wei Ping-ao, 60, Chinese and Hong Kong actor.
- Carlo Rim, 86, French film screenwriter, producer and director.[19]
- Nihal Silva, 35, Sri Lankan comedian and actor, shot.
4
- Gerald Carson, 90, American advertising executive, social historian and writer.
- Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, 80, Welsh barrister and politician.[20]
- Émile Janssens, 87, Belgian colonial official and military officer.
- Steve Lembo, 63, American Major Leagues baseball player.[21]
- Kathleen Manners, 95, English aristocrat, wife of John Manners.
- Angelo Ruggiero, 49, American mobster, member of Gambino crime family, cancer.[22]
- May Swenson, 76, American poet and playwright.[23]
5
- Juan Manuel Acuña, 68, Chilean international footballer.
- Edoardo Amaldi, 81, Italian physicist.[24]
- Nathan Huggins, 62, American historian, author and educator.[25]
- Sofiya Kalistratova, 82, Soviet lawyer and human rights activist.
- Li Keran, 82, Chinese painter and art educator, heart attack.[26]
- George Machin, 66, British politician.
- Tadeusz Miksa, 63, Polish footballer.
- John Pritchard, 71, English conductor, music director of the San Francisco Opera, lung cancer.[27]
- George Selden, 60, American author.[28]
6
- Frances Bavier, 86, American stage and television actress, heart failure.[29]
- C. L. Dellums, 89, American labor activist.[30]
- Sammy Fain, 87, American composer, musician and vocalist (Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Incredible Mr. Limpet), heart attack.[31]
- David Hardman, 88, British politician.[32]
- Rolf Johannesson, 89, Nazi German and West German naval admiral.
- Marc Lépine, 25, Canadian mass murderer (École Polytechnique massacre), suicide by gunshot.[33]
- Mélinée Manouchian, 75–76, French-Armenian résistante and the widow of Missak Manouchian.[34]
- Art Parks, 78, American Major Leagues baseball player.[35]
- John Payne, 77, American film actor, congestive heart failure.[36]
- Ćamil Sijarić, 75, Yugoslav novelist and short story writer, traffic collision.[37]
7
- William "Haystacks" Calhoun, 55, American professional wrestler.
- Phil Dokes, 34, American NFL football player, heart failure.[38]
- Hans Hartung, 85, German-French abstract painter and soldier.[39]
- Lucien Le Guével, 74, French racing cyclist.[40]
- Carlos DeLuna, 27, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- Stuart Novins, 75, American television journalist, respiratory failure.[41]
- Sirima, 25, Sri Lankan-English singer, stabbed.
- Vadim Spiridonov, 45, Soviet film actor and director, heart failure.[42]
- Luis Calderón Vega, 77–78, Mexican politician and writer.[43]
- Melchior Wezel, 86, Swiss gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.[44]
8
- Albert Barrett, 86, English footballer.
- Szymon Datner, 87, Polish historian and Holocaust survivor.[45]
- Max Grundig, 81, German businessman, founder of Grundig AG.[46]
- Mykola Livytskyi, 82, Soviet Ukrainian politician, prime minister and president of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile.
- Stanley Steingut, 69, American politician, speaker of the New York House Assembly, lung cancer.[47]
9
- Brett Austin, 30, New Zealand swimmer and Olympian.
- Edward J. Bloustein, 64, American, president of Rutgers University.[48]
- Gunnar Bøe, 72, Norwegian politician and economist.
- William P. Ennis, 85, American lieutenant-general in the United States Army.[49]
- Basil Hayward, 61, English footballer and manager, heart attack.[50]
- Takeshi Kaikō, 58, Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, and television documentary writer, esophageal cancer.
- Doug Scovil, 62, American football player and coach, heart attack.[51]
- S. Somasundaram, 70, Indian vocalist.
- R. G. Springsteen, 85, American B movie and television director.[52]
10
- Frank Baker, 71, English footballer.[53]
- Sam Barkas, 79, English footballer and manager.[54]
- Paul Collaer, 98, Belgian musicologist, pianist, and conductor.[55]
- George Edmonds, 96, English professional footballer.
- Nico Gardener, 83, British bridge player.
- Frederick Hedges, 86, Canadian rower and Olympic medalist.[56]
- Robin Hughes, 69, British film and television actor, liver disease.
- Steve Sebo, 75, American football and baseball player and coach.[57]
- Harold Thomas, 75, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer.[58]
- Huang Zhen, 80, Chinese politician, Chinese ambassador to Hungary, Indonesia and France.[59]
11
- Allez France, 19, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
- Carlos Almaraz, 48, Mexican-born American artist, AIDS.[60]
- Lindsay Crosby, 51, American actor and singer, son of Bing Crosby, suicide by gunshot.[61]
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 94, American photographer, pneumonia.[62]
- Howard Lang, English actor.
12
- Carlos Barral, 60–61, Spanish poet, politician and publisher, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[63]
- Sid Colin, 74, English scriptwriter.[64]
- Helen Creighton, 90, Canadian folklorist and author.[65]
- Bill Kennedy, 77, Scottish professional footballer.[66]
- Suihō Tagawa, 90, Japanese manga artist.[67]
13
- Paul Crowe, 65, American NFL football player.[68]
- Peter Bernard David de la Mare, 69, New Zealand physical organic chemist.
- Michele Fanelli, 82, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian.[69]
- Sammy Lerner, 86, Romanian-born American songwriter for musical theatre and film, cancer.[70]
- Felix McGrogan, 75, Scottish footballer.[71]
- Stan Randall, 81, Canadian businessman and politician.
14
- Lucien Aguettand, 88, French art director.[72]
- Reuben Bennett, 75, Scottish professional footballer and manager.[73]
- Robert D. Blue, 91, American politician, governor of Iowa (1945–1949), stroke.
- Narciso Busquets, 58, Mexican theatre, film, television and radio actor, and voice-over.[74]
- Ants Eskola, 81, Soviet and Estonian actor.
- Gerry Healy, 76, British political activist.
- Seiichi Katsumata, 81, Japanese politician, Soviet spy.
- Jock Mahoney, 70, American actor and stuntman, stroke.[75]
- Frederick Nolting, 78, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam.[76]
- Georges Poitou, 63, French mathematician.[77]
- Andrei Sakharov, 68, Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, human rights activist and Nobel laureate in Physics, dilated cardiomyopathy.[78]
- Howard Walton, 73, British tennis player.
15
- Anders "Akka" Andersson, 52, Swedish ice hockey player and dual Olympian.[79]
- Ben Barzman, 79, Canadian journalist, screenwriter and novelist.[80]
- Emile de Antonio, 70, American director and producer of documentaries, heart attack.
- José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, 42, Colombian drug lord and leader of the Medellín Cartel, shot.[81]
- Charles Holland, 81, British road-racing cyclist and Olympic medalist.[82]
- Philly Lutaaya, 38, Ugandan musician, AIDS.[83]
- Arnold Moss, 79, American actor, lung cancer.[84]
- Diptendu Pramanick, 79, Indian film personality.
- Vanja Sutlić, 64, Yugoslav philosopher.[85]
- Edward Underdown, 81, English theatre, cinema and television actor.[86]
- Ali Şen, 80, Turkish actor.[87]
16
- Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, 76, Argentine racing driver, pancreatic cancer.
- Charlie Long, 51, American AFL football player.
- Silvana Mangano, 59, Italian film actress, lung cancer.[88]
- Gianni Poggi, 68, Italian tenor.[89]
- Aileen Pringle, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress.[90]
- John Ramsbotham, 83, British Anglican clergyman.
- René Tavernier, 74, French poet and philosopher.[91]
- Robert Smith Vance, 58, American judge, assassinated.[92]
- Lee Van Cleef, 64, American film and television actor, heart attack.[93]
- Robert Smith Vance, 58, American judge, assassinated by letter bomb.
- Marjorie Westbury, 84, English radio actress and singer.
- Priscilla White, 89, American diabetes researcher, heart attack.[94]
17
- Gilbert Allart, 87, French hurdler and Olympian.[95]
- Walt Bachrach, 85, American businessman, lawyer and Republican politician, mayor of Cincinnati, stroke.
- Edward Boyd, 72–73, Scottish writer.[96]
- Zeb Eaton, 69, American Major Leagues baseball player.[97]
- Ghalib Halasa, 57, Jordanian novelist and short story writer.
- Gustav Engel, 96, German historian.
- Josephine Hill, 90, American silent-screen actress.
- Asen Panchev, 83, Bulgarian international footballer.[98]
- Luciano Salce, 67, Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist, heart attack, melanoma.
- Gheorghe Vlădescu-Răcoasa, 94, Romanian sociologist, journalist, and diplomat.
- Albert Coady Wedemeyer, 93, American Army general.[99]
- William Wiswesser, 75, American chemist (Wiswesser line notation).[100]
18
- Ewen Bain, 64, Scottish cartoonist (Angus Og), influenza.[101]
- Brad Beckman, 24, American NFL football player, traffic collision.[102]
- Olwen Brogan, 89, British archaeologist.[103]
- Bobby Capó, 67, Puerto Rican musician, heart attack.[104]
- Sir George Harvie-Watt, 86, British barrister and politician.
- Sydney Irving, 71, British politician.
- Enar Josefsson, 73, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist.[105]
- Jack Kilpatrick, 72, British ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.[106]
- Louise Little, early 90s, Grenadian-born American activist, mother of Malcolm X.
- Jerzy Rutkowski, 75, Polish political activist and resistance fighter.
- Robert E. Robinson, 42, American attorney and council member, murdered.[107]
- William Saltonstall, 84, American educator, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.[108]
- Stanley Senanayake, 72, Sri Lankan police officer, Inspector General of the Sri Lanka Police.
- Jean Strauss, 77, Luxembourgian sprint canoeist and Olympian.[109]
19
- Herbert Blaize, 71, Grenadian politician, prime minister of Grenada, prostate cancer.[110]
- Abdul Jalil Choudhury, 63–64, Bengali Deobandi Islamic scholar and politician, member of Assam Legislative Assembly.
- Audrey Christie, 77, American actress, singer and dancer, emphysema.[111]
- Lois Darling, 72, American author and illustrator.[112]
- Barthold Fles, 87, Dutch-born American literary agent and author, diabetes.[113]
- Stella Gibbons, 87, English author, journalist and poet.[114]
- John Heddle, 46, British politician, suicide.[115]
- Floyd Jones, 72, American blues musician (On the Road Again), heart failure.[116]
- Óndra Łysohorsky, 84, Czechoslovakian poet.[117]
- Kirill Mazurov, 75, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia.[118]
- Georges Rouquier, 80, French film director, screenwriter and actor.[119]
- Henry Theel, 72, Finnish singer.
20
- Irma Beilke, 85, German operatic soprano, concert singer and academic voice teacher.
- Kurt Böhme, 81, German bass.[120]
- Elisheva Cohen, 78, German-born Israeli designer and museum curator.[121]
- Gentry Crowell, 57, American politician, Tennessee secretary of state, suicide by gunshot.
- Donald L. McFaul, 32, United States Navy SEAL, killed in the United States invasion of Panama.
21
- Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet, 76, British ornithologist, conservationist and hereditary peer.[122]
- Ján Cikker, 78, Czechoslovakian composer.[123]
- Rotimi Fani-Kayode, 34, Nigerian-born English photographer, AIDS.[124]
- Elsie Griffin, 94, English opera singer.[125]
- Harry Hibbs, 47, Canadian musician, cancer.
- Ralph "Blackie" Schwamb, 63, American Major League baseballer and convicted murderer.[126]
- Soedjatmoko, 67, Indonesian politician and diplomat, cardiac arrest.[127]
- Ethel Swanbeck, 96, American politician, member of Ohio House of Representatives.
- José Zacarías Tallet, 96, Cuban writer.[128]
- Dwane Wallace, 78, American aircraft designer, president of Cessna.
22
- Samuel Beckett, 83, Irish-French novelist, playwright, and short story writer, emphysema.[129]
- Howard Bowen, 81, American economist and college president.[130]
- Howard Bowen, 81, American economist, president of Grinnell College and the University of Iowa.[131]
- Theodore M. Burton, 82, American Mormon Genealogical Department director.[132]
- Archie Campbell, 86, American Major Leagues baseballer.[133]
- Giorgio Cavallon, 85, Italian-born American abstract artist.[134]
- Harry Kraf, 82, American lawyer and politician.[135]
- Vasile Milea, 62, Romanian general and politician, suicide.[136]
- Gustavo Pizarro, 73, Chilean international footballer.[137]
- Massimo Serato, 73, Italian film actor, heart attack.[138]
23
- Jeff Alexander, 79, American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio and television scores, cancer.[139]
- Peter Bennett, 72, British stage and television actor.
- Milko Gaydarski, 43, Bulgarian international footballer and Olympic medalist.[140]
- Clem Hawke, 91, Australian politician, father of Bob Hawke, stroke.[141]
- Shahzad Khalil, 44–45, Pakistani television director and producer, heart attack.
- Richard Rado, 83, German-born British mathematician.[142]
- Lennart Strandberg, 74, Swedish sprinter and Olympian.[143]
24
- Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda, 79, British hereditary peer.
- Victor Fontana, 41, Romanian biathlete and Olympian, shot.[144]
- Ernest Nathan Morial, 60, American politician, civil rights advocate, heart attack.
- Florică Murariu, 34, Romanian international rugby union player, shot.
- Roger Pigaut, 70, French actor and film director, cardiovascular disease.[145]
- Ollie Savatsky, 78, American NFL football player.[146]
25
- Benny Binion, 85, American career criminal who established illegal gambling operations, heart failure.[147]
- Elena Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian communist politician, deputy Prime Minister of Romania and wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, executed by firing squad.[148]
- Nicolae Ceaușescu, 71, Romanian communist politician and dictatorial president of Romania (1974–1989), executed by firing squad.[149]
- Gus Dahlström, 83, Swedish film actor.
- Betty Garde, 84, American stage, radio, film and television actress.[150]
- Türkan Hanımsultan, 70, Ottoman princess and chemical engineer, daughter of Enver Pasha.
- George Hotchkiss, 83, American NBL basketball coach.[151]
- Frederick F. Houser, 85, American politician and judge.
- Masaad Kassis, 71, Israeli Arab politician.
- Joseph Livingston, 84, American business journalist and columnist.
- Jean-Étienne Marie, 72, French composer of contemporary music.[152]
- Billy Martin, 61, American Major Leagues baseball player and manager, traffic collision.[153]
- Riccardo Morandi, 87, Italian civil engineer, noted for his bridge designs.[154]
- Robert Pirosh, 79, American film and television screenwriter and director.[155]
- Bo Randall, 80, American knifemaker
- Wally Ris, 65, American swimmer, dual Olympic gold medalist and world record holder.[156]
- Domenico Scala, 86, Italian cinematographer.
- A. J. Seymour, 75, Guyanese poet, essayist, memoirist.[157]
26
- Lennox Berkeley, 86, English composer.[158]
- Doug Harvey, 65, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, cirrhosis.[159]
- Kōyō Ishikawa, 85, Japanese photographer.
- Paul Jennings, 71, English author.[160]
- Roy Joiner, 83, American Major Leagues baseball player.[161]
- Jörgen Lehmann, 91, Danish-Swedish physician and chemist.[162]
- James J. Manderino, 57, American politician, speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, heart attack.[163]
- Maryon Pearson, 88, wife of Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada.
- K. Shankar Pillai, 87, Indian cartoonist.
- Sybil Sassoon, 95, British noblewoman and socialite, Chief Staff Officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) during the Second World War.[164]
- Mohan Singh, 80, Indian general and politician, cancer.[165]
- Peggy Thorpe-Bates, 75, English stage, screen and television actress.
- Seán Walsh, 64, Irish politician.
27
- Rodney Arismendi, 76, Uruguayan politician and political writer.[166]
- Kurt Baum, 89, Austro-Hungarian-born American singer.[167]
- Maurice Dunkley, 75, English footballer.[168]
- Finlay Hart, 87–88, Scottish communist politician.
- Gene Johnson, 87, American football and basketball coach.
- Dada Amir Haider Khan, 89, Pakistani communist activist.
- Gerard Maarse, 60, Dutch speed skater and dual Olympian.[169]
- Arthur Rhames, 32, American guitarist, tenor saxophonist, and pianist, AIDS.[170]
- John Monteath Robertson, 89, Scottish chemist and crystallographer.
- Ron Ulmer, 76, New Zealand track cyclist and national champion.
- George William Weidler, 63, American saxophonist and songwriter, husband of Doris Day.
28
- Solomon Birnbaum, 98, Austro-Hungarian, British and Canadian expert in Yiddish linguistics and Hebrew paleography.[171]
- Marin Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian economist and diplomat, brother of Nicolae Ceaușescu, suicide by hanging.
- Brian Coburn, 53, English actor who portrayed himself as Scottish.
- Karl Humenberger, 83, Austrian footballer and manager.[172]
- Pavel Kurochkin, 89, Soviet army general.
- Ricardo López Méndez, 86, Mexican poet and lyricist.
- Hermann Oberth, 95, Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer.[173]
- William Scott, 76, Northern Irish abstract painter.[174]
29
- Süreyya Ağaoğlu, 86, Azerbaijani-born Turkish writer and lawyer, cerebral hemorrhage.[175]
- Adrien Albert, 82, Australian medicinal chemist.[176]
- Scott Burton, 50, American sculptor, AIDS.[177]
- Saman Piyasiri Fernando, 31, Sri Lankan politician, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, murdered.[178]
- Hap Glaudi, 77, American sportscaster (WWL-TV), lung cancer.[179]
- Marion Keisker, 72, American record producer, first person to record Elvis Presley.[180]
- Saša Večtomov (born Alexandr Večtomov), 59, Czechoslovakian cellist, suicide.
- Bernard Lewis Welch, 77–78, British statistician (Welch's t-test), stroke.[181]
30
- Sten Abel, 90, Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist.[182]
- Charles H. Blosser, 94, American after whom Blosser Municipal Airport is named.
- Øyvind Anker, 85, Norwegian librarian.[183]
- Augusto Del Noce, 79, Italian philosopher and political thinker.[184]
- Etienne Leroux, 67, South African writer.[185]
- Esther McCoy, 85, American architectural historian and author.[186]
- Yasuji Miyazaki, 73, Japanese swimmer and Olympian.[187]
- Fumiteru Nakano, 74, Japanese tennis player.
- Madoline Thomas, 99, Welsh stage, film and television actress, complications from a broken hip.
31
- Christia Adair, 96, American suffragist and civil rights activist.
- Lilly Daché, 97, French-born American hatmaker.[188]
- Georges de Bourguignon, 79, Belgian fencer and Olympic medalist.[189]
- Clarence Hammar, 90, Swedish sailor and Olympic medalist.[190]
- Ignatius Kilage, 48, Papua New Guinean politician, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.[191]
- Mihály Lantos, 61, Hungarian international footballer and manager.[192]
- Wendell Mosley, 57, American football player and coach.
- Bendt Rothe, 68, Danish actor.[193]
- Gerhard Schröder, 79, West German politician.[194]
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- Martin Bartesch, 63, Romanian-born member of the SS (Mauthausen concentration camp).[195]
- Ruth Moore, 85–86, American writer.[196]
- Nora O'Mahoney, 76–77, Irish actress and lay missionary.
- Dietrich Prinz, 86, German-born computer science pioneer.
- Yem Sambaur, 76, Cambodian politician, prime minister of Cambodia.
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