Deaths_in_April_1989
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1989.
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Contents
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.
1
- Roy Francis, 70, Welsh rugby league footballer and coach.
- Paul Jappe, 91, American NFL footballer.
- Jan A. Rajchman, 77, Polish-American electrical engineer.
- George Robledo, 62, Chilean international footballer, heart attack.
2
- E. Chambré Hardman, 89, Anglo-Irish photographer.
- Daniel Spry, 86, Canadian Army officer during World War II.
- Zainon Munshi Sulaiman, 86, Malaysian educator and politician, member of the Malaysian Parliament.
- Inez Clare Verdoorn, 92, South African botanist and taxonomist.
- Dingiri Bandara Welagedara, 73, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of North Central Province.
3
- Mustafa Çağatay, 51, Turkish-Cypriot politician, Prime Minister of Turkish Cyprus, traffic accident.
- Pinchas Hacohen Peli, 58, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, poet and scholar of Jewish philosophy.
- Norman Wooland, 79, English character actor.
4
- Gerard Casey, appr. 29, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot.
- Woody Crumbo, 77, American artist, flute player and dancer.
5
- Frank Foss, 93, American pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist.
- Bill Gunn, 54, American playwright, novelist, actor and director, encephalitis.[1]
- Bill Hampton, 85, New Zealand lawn bowler.
- Harold Hayes, 62, American journalist and writer.[2]
- Kurt Lischka, 79, German SS official, Gestapo chief and commandant of the Security police.
- Bill Mehlhorn, 90, American professional golfer.
- Karel Zeman, 78, Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator.
6
- Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, 72, British Army officer and member of Parliament.
- Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, 86, American diver and dual Olympic gold medalist.
- Pannalal Patel, 76, Indian author, brain haemorrhage.
- Michael Reusch, 75, Swiss gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
7
- Hassan al-Amri, 68–69, Yemeni lieutenant general and Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic.
- Cheng Nan-jung, 41, Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist, suicide by immolation.
- Evelyn Finley, 73, American B-movie actress and stuntwoman, heart failure.
- Basawon Singh, 80, Indian activist.
8
- Albert Bormann, 86, German Nazi Gruppenführer, adjutant to Adolf Hitler, brother of Martin Bormann.
- Mario Chiari, 79, Italian production designer and art director.[3]
- Joseph Crouch, 55, American politician, heart attack.[4]
- Lloyd Francis MacMahon, 76, American judge of the United States District Court, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Charles A. Mobley, 92, American politician, mayor of the city of Flint, Michigan.
- A. M. Rajah, 59, Indian playback singer and music director, train accident.
- Bus Saidt, 68, American sports writer.
- Windsor Utley, 68–69, American musician, artist, teacher and gallery owner.
- John Wyer, 79, English automobile racing engineer and team manager.
9
- Friedrich Ritter, 90, German botanist.
- Carl Wessler, 75, American animator and comic book writer.
10
- Joan Barry, 85, British actress.
- Gennadi Bondarenko, 60, Soviet footballer and coach.
- William H. Brett, 95, American director of the United States Mint, pancreatic cancer.[5]
- George Genereux, 54, Canadian trap shooter and Olympic gold medalist.
- Nikolai Grinko, 68, Ukrainian actor.
11
- Emil Grosswald, 76, Romanian-American mathematician.
- Hiram Sherman, 81, American actor, stroke.[6]
12
- Gerald Flood, 61, British actor of stage and television, heart attack.
- Abbie Hoffman, 52, American political and social activist, suicide by overdose.[7]
- Willie McNaught, 66, Scottish international footballer.
- Sugar Ray Robinson, 67, American professional boxer, heart disease.[8]
- Tilda Thamar, 67, Argentine actress, car accident.
13
- Philip Joseph Furlong, 96, American Catholic Bishop.
- Terry Miller, 46, American businessman and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, bone cancer.
- Bill Putnam, 69, American audio engineer, songwriter and producer.
14
- Valdemar Laursen, 88, Danish international footballer.
- Bob Mathews, 76, Australian rules footballer.
15
- David Cuthbertson, 88, Scottish physician, biochemist and medical researcher.
- Hu Yaobang, 73, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, heart attack.[9]
- Bernard-Marie Koltès, 41, French playwright and theatre director, complications from AIDS.
- Alita Román, 76, Argentine film actress.
- Connie Simmons, 64, American professional basketballer.
- Charles Vanel, 96, French actor and director.[10]
16
- Jocko Conlan, 89, American baseball umpire.
- John Dighton, 79, British playwright and screenwriter.
- Harald Edelstam, 76, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to Algeria, cancer.
- Wilhelm Ehmann, 84, German musicologist, church musician and conductor, Nazi Party member.
- Kaoru Ishikawa, 73, Japanese organisational theorist and a professor.
- Hu Juewen, 93, Chinese politician, vice chairperson of Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
- C. K. McClatchy II, 62, American newspaper publisher.
- Dominic Olejniczak, 80, American real estate broker, politician and football executive, strokes.[11]
- Hakkı Yeten, 78, Turkish football player and club president.
17
- Ken Gee, 72, English international rugby league footballer.
- M. S. Kariapper, 89, Sri Lankan politician.
- Charles Lampkin, 76, American actor, musician and lecturer.
- Villano II, 39, Mexican Luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler), suicide by hanging.
18
- Adil Atan, 60, Turkish wrestler and Olympic medalist.
- Hilde Benjamin, 87, East German judge and Minister of Justice.
- Alexander Barrett Klots, 85, American entomologist.
- Julia Smith, 84, American composer, pianist and author on musicology.
- Candan Tarhan, 46, Turkish football manager.
19
- Dame Daphne du Maurier, 81, English novelist, biographer and playwright, heart failure.[12]
- George Paxton, 75, American big band leader, saxophonist, arranger and publisher, apparent suicide.
20
- Maurice Nyagumbo, 64, Zimbabwean politician, suicide by poison.
- Martin Ragaway, 66, American comedy writer.
- Lou Riley, 79, Australian rules footballer.
21
- Princess Deokhye of Korea, 76, last princess of the Korean royal family.
- Lou Gregory, 86, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
- James Kirkwood Jr., 64, American playwright, author and actor, AIDS-related complications.[13]
- Paul Mitchell, 53, Scottish-American co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems, pancreatic cancer.
- Frank O'Keefe, 76, Australian politician, member of federal parliament.
- James N. Rowe, 51, United States Army officer, assassinated.
- Nicolaas Steelink, 98, Dutch-American labour activist.
- Paulus Svendsen, 85, Norwegian professor and literary historian.
22
- György Kulin, 84, Hungarian astronomer.
- Emilio Segrè, 84, Italian-American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics.
- Tommy Thompson, 70, American NFL and CFL footballer, brain cancer.
23
- Marc Daniels, 77, American television director, congestive heart failure.[14]
- Hamani Diori, 72, Nigerien politician, president of Republic of Niger.[15]
- Hu Die, 81, Chinese actress, stroke.
- Imre Hódos, 61, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
- Kurt Jung, 64, German politician and architect.
- Stefan Korboński, 88, Polish-American politician, lawyer and journalist, aneurysm.
- Howie Krist, 73, American Major League baseballer.
- Harry Bolton Seed, 66, British-American geotechnical earthquake engineer, cancer.[16]
24
- Franz Binder, 77, Austrian international footballer and coach.
- Clyde Geronimi, 87, American animation director.[17]
- Charles Grant, 82, English Roman Catholic bishop.
- Joseph Jarabak, 83, American orthodontist.
- Li Jingquan, 79, Chinese politician and Party Committee Secretary of Sichuan.
- Lee Roberts, 75, American film actor.
- Federico Saiz, 76, Spanish international footballer.
- Edgar Sanabria, 77, Venezuelan diplomat and politician, interim President of Venezuela, stroke.
25
- Dee Boeckmann, 82, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.
- George Coulouris, 85, English film and stage actor.[18]
26
- Lucille Ball, 77, American actress and comedienne, ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.[19]
- Carl Monroe, 29, American NFL footballer, accidental overdose.
27
- Howard Brookner, 34, American film director, AIDS.[20]
- Jack Devine, 70, Canadian ice hockey administrator and radio sports commentator.
- Konosuke Matsushita, 94, Japanese founder of Panasonic, pneumonia.[21]
- Breda Pergar, 36, Yugoslavian middle distance and long distance runner.
- William Arthur Smith, 71, American artist.
28
- Jack Cummings, 84, American film producer and director.[22]
- Géza von Cziffra, 88, Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.
- Pinchoo Kapoor, 61–62, Indian actor.
- Esa Pakarinen, 78, Finnish actor, singer, accordionist and comedian, cancer.
- Ralph H. Wetmore, 97, American professor of botany at Harvard University.
29
- Donald Deskey, 94, American industrial designer.[23]
- Marlene Elejarde, 37, Cuban sprinter and Olympic medalist, car accident.
- James Nobel Landis, 89, American power engineer at Brooklyn Edison Company.
- Richard C. Lord, 78, American chemist.[24]
30
- Yi Bangja, 87, wife of Crown Prince Euimin, last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire, cancer.
- Edwin F. Kalmus, 95, Austrian-American music publisher.
- Gottfried Köthe, 83, Austrian mathematician.
- Sergio Leone, 60, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack.[25]
- Stumpy Thomason, 83, American NFL footballer.
- Taiji Tonoyama, 73, Japanese character actor.
- Guy Williams, 65, American actor, brain aneurysm.
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- Doug Smith, 71, English jockey and trainer, suicide.
- Harry White, appr. 73, Irish republican paramilitary.
- Philip Waggenheim, 74, American mobster.
- C. Gerald Fraser (April 7, 1989). "Bill Gunn, Playwright and Actor, Dies at 54 on Eve of Play Premiere". The New York Times. p. D 20. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "Service for Harold Hayes". The New York Times. May 2, 1989. p. B 6. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "Mario Chiari, Costume Designer, 79". The New York Times. April 11, 1989. p. B 12. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "VA. DEL. JOSEPH P. CROUCH, LYNCHBURG REPUBLICAN, DIES". Washington Post. December 31, 2023. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
- "William H. Brett, 95, Former Mint Director". The New York Times. April 13, 1989. p. B 12. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- C. Gerald Fraser (April 13, 1989). "Hiram Sherman, Actor, Was 81". The New York Times. p. B 13. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- John T. McQuiston (April 14, 1989). "Abbie Hoffman, 60's Icon, Dies; Yippie Movement Founder Was 52". The New York Times. p. D 17. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Dave Anderson (April 13, 1989). "Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxing's 'Best,' Is Dead". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Nicholas D. Kristof, Special To the New York Times (April 15, 1989). "Hu Yaobang, 73, Dies in China; Led Communist Party in 1980's". The New York Times. p. 1 10. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "Charles Vanel, Stage And Screen Actor, 96". The New York Times. April 16, 1989. p. 1 36. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "Dominic Olejniczak, Sports Executive, 80". The New York Times. April 17, 1989. p. D 15. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Herbert Mitgang (April 20, 1989). "Daphne du Maurier, 81, Author Of Many Gothic Romances, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 13. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
- Constance L. Hays (April 22, 1989). "James Kirkwood, Author of Book For Musical 'Chorus Line,' Dies". The New York Times. p. 1 33. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "Marc Daniels, 77, Dies; Directed 'I Love Lucy'". The New York Times. April 29, 1989. p. 1 10. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "Hamani Diori, 72, the Founder Of an Independent Niger, Is Dead". The New York Times. April 25, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "H. Bolton Seed, 66, Expert on Earthquakes". The New York Times. April 26, 1989. p. B 5. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
- "Clyde Geronimi, 87, An Animator at Disney". The New York Times. April 30, 1989. p. 1 40. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Glenn Collins (April 27, 1989). "George Coulouris, 85, Is Dead; Actor Relished Villainous Roles". The New York Times. p. B 16. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Peter B. Flint (April 27, 1989). "Lucille Ball, Spirited Doyenne Of TV Comedies, Dies at 77". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Stephen Holden (April 29, 1989). "Howard Brookner, 34, Director". The New York Times. p. 1 10. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Steve Lohr (April 27, 1989). "Konosuke Matsushita, Industrialist, Is Dead at 94". The New York Times. p. B 16. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
- "Jack Cummings, 84, a Producer at M-G-M". The New York Times. April 30, 1989. p. 1 40. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Suzanne Slesin (April 30, 1989). "DONALD DESKEY, INNOVATIVE DESIGNER, DIES A 94". The New York Times. p. 1 40. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- "Richard Lord, 78, Professor of Chemistry". The New York Times. May 6, 1989. p. 1 10. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Peter B. Flint (May 1, 1989). "Sergio Leone, 67, Italian Director Who Revitalized Westerns, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved March 24, 2024.