• Source: Deaths in September 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.




September 1989






= 1

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Kevin Andrews, 75, American archaeologist and writer, drowned.
Paul Chung, 30, Hong Kong actor, suicide.
Kazimierz Deyna, 41, Polish international footballer (Legia Warsaw, Poland), car accident.
Bart Giamatti, 51, American Commissioner of Major League Baseball, heart attack.
Dipa Ma, 78, Indian meditation teacher.
Albert Outler, 80, American Methodist historian and pastor, stroke.
Shah Azizur Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
Leslie Runciman, 89, British shipping magnate.
Tadeusz Sendzimir, 95, Polish engineer and inventor, stroke.
Yevgeny Veltistov, 55, Soviet writer and screenwriter.




= 2

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Clifton Parker, 84, British composer.
Brian Robinson, appr. 27, Northern Ireland loyalist militant (Ulster Volunteer Force), shot.




= 3

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John Augustine Collins, 90, Royal Australian Navy vice admiral, Chief of Navy.
Augie Lio, 71, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions).
Gaetano Scirea, 36, Italian international footballer (Juventus, Italy), car accident.
Rip Sewell, 82, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates).
Meena Shorey, 67, Pakistani film actress (Ek Thi Larki).




= 4

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Colin Clark, 83, British and Australian economist and statistician (gross national product).
Zenon Kliszko, 80, Polish politician.
Carl-August von Schoenebeck, 91, Nazi German general in the Luftwaffe.
Georges Simenon, 86, Belgian writer (Jules Maigret), complications from a fall.
Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand–born British classicist and historian (The Roman Revolution).




= 5

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Philip Baxter, 84, British and Australian chemical engineer, chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission.
Michael Fidler, 73, British politician, Member of Parliament.
William Mann, 65, English music critic, complications from surgery.
J. Barkley Rosser, 81, American logician (Church–Rosser theorem), aneurysm.




= 6

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Edwin Arthur Burtt, 96, American philosopher.
Muhammad Ibrahim, 77, Bangladeshi physician.
Gina Manès, 96, French film actress.
Jimmy Ruffell, 89, English international footballer (West Ham United, England).




= 7

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Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman, World Championship gold medalist, heart attack.
Valery Goborov, 23, Soviet basketball player, Olympic gold medalist, car crash.
Mikhail Goldstein, 71, German composer and violinist.




= 8

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Frederic L. Chapin, 60, American diplomat, ambassador to Ethiopia, Guatemala and Chad, cancer.
Keef Cowboy, 28, American rapper, invented term "hip hop", drug overdose.
Ann George, 86, English actress (Crossroads), cancer.
Paul Alfred Weiss, 91, Austrian and American biologist.




= 9

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Elephter Andronikashvili, 78, Georgian physicist.
Christopher Chancellor, 85, British journalist, general manager of Reuters.
Radharani Devi, 85, Indian poet.
Oleksiy Fedorov, 88, Soviet army general, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Josette Frank, 96, American children's literature expert, pneumonia.
Tim Hovey, 44, American child actor, road manager of Grateful Dead, suicide.
John McShain, 92, American building contractor, "The Man Who Built Washington", stroke.




= 10

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Jeff Stollmeyer, 68, Trinidad and Tobago test cricketer and captain (West Indies) and senator, wounds from home invaders.




= 11

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Lucy Carnegie Ferguson, 89, American preservationist (Cumberland Island).
Paul Gann, 77, American political activist, pneumonia.




= 12

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Gladys Jayawardene, Sri Lankan physician, chairman of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka, assassinated.
John D. Landers, 69 American officer in the United States Army Air Forces.
Anton Lubowski, 37, Namibian anti-apartheid activist and advocate, assassinated.
Fishbait Miller, 80, American Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
Sterjo Spasse, 75, Albanian prose writer and novelist.
Seamus Twomey, 69, Irish republican militant activist, chief of staff of the Provisional I.R.A..
Don Walker, 81, American Broadway orchestrator and composer.




= 13

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Acharya Aatreya, 68, Indian poet, playwright and screenwriter.
Gilles Andriamahazo, 70, Madagascan general in the French army, head of state of Madagascar, heart attack.
Géza Frid, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born Dutch composer and pianist.
Sagarika Gomes, 27, Sri Lankan newscaster, abducted and murdered.
Kamal Irani, 57, Pakistani film actor (Shaheed), heart attack.
Charles H. Russell, 85, American politician, Governor of Nevada, heart attack.
Ron Whyte, 47, American playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.
John Yovicsin, 70, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart disease.




= 14

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John Bright, 81, American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.
Tim Brown, 51, American figure skater, World Figure Skating Championships medalist, AIDS.
Marvin Middlemark, 69, American inventor of the Rabbit Ears television antenna.
Benjamin Peary Pal, 83, Indian plant breeder and agronomist, director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
Dámaso Pérez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader and composer, popularised the mambo, stroke.
Heinz Schmidt, 82, German journalist and editor.
Tika Lal Taploo, 58, Indian politician, assassinated.
Valentina, 90, Ukrainian-born American fashion designer, Parkinson's disease.




= 15

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Harry Cave, 66, New Zealand test cricketer and captain (Central Districts, New Zealand).
William C. Eddy, 87, American naval officer, engineer and inventor.
Olga Erteszek, 73, Polish-born American lingerie designer and company owner, breast cancer.
Jan DeGaetani, 56, American mezzo-soprano, leukemia.
Michael Klinger, 68, British film producer and distributor.
Robert Penn Warren, 84, American poet and novelist, prostate cancer.
John Burr Williams, 88, American economist (intrinsic value).




= 16

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Bruno Heck, 72, German politician (Minister of Family Affairs and Youth).
Princess Irina Nikolaïevna Orlova, 71, Russian royal.
Georg Schewe, Nazi German officer with the Kriegsmarine.
Allen Shields, 62, American mathematician, (functional analysis), cancer.
Anatoly Slivko, 50, Soviet serial killer, executed.
Steven Stayner, 24, American kidnapping victim, motor cycle collision.
Anthony Trafford, 57, British politician, Member of Parliament and the House of Lords, lung cancer.




= 17

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Hugh Quincy Alexander, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Leon Culberson, 70, American Major League baseballer (Boston Red Sox).
Richard Hull, 82, British Army field marshall, Chief of the General Staff, cancer.
Lionel Malamed, 64, American NBA basketballer (Indianapolis Jets), heart attack.
Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, 70, Romanian philosopher, novelist and dramatist, esophageal cancer.
Jay Stewart, 71, American television and radio announcer (Let's Make a Deal), suicide.
Salvador Tió, 77, Puerto Rican poet and writer, coined the term "Spanglish".
Don Vines, 57, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer (Wakefield Trinity, Great Britain).




= 18

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Alexander Fletcher, 60, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.
Maryat Lee, 66, American playwright and theatre director, heart disease.
Peter Phipps, 80, New Zealand vice admiral in the Royal New Zealand Navy, car accident.
Aleksandra Śląska, 63, Polish film actress.
Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker and actor (Flaming Creatures), AIDS.




= 19

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Vera Barclay, 95, English scouting pioneer and an author.
Alma Lavenson, 92, American photographer.
Philip Sayer, 42, British actor (Xtro), cancer.
Willie Steele, 66, American long-jumper and Olympic gold medalist, cancer.




= 20

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Ruth Bailey, 76, American actress.
Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist and revolutionist.
Charley Booker, 64, American blues singer and guitarist.
Richie Ginther, 59, American race car driver, heart attack.
Roy W. Johnson, 97, American football, basketball and baseball coach.
David Loxton, 46, Canadian-born British and American documentary producer, pancreatic cancer.
Tuti Indra Malaon, 49, Indonesian actress and dancer (Wadjah Seorang Laki-laki), internal bleeding.
James Paster, 44, American serial killer, executed.




= 21

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Bill Barron, 62, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
Garrett H. Byrne, 91, American lawyer and politician, district attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Murry Dickson, 73, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Cardinals), emphysema.
Ertem Eğilmez, 60, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
Corrado Gaipa, 64, Italian actor and voice actor (The Godfather).
Norman Morley, 90, British Naval Reserve officer.
Gene Nobles, 76, American radio disc jockey (WLAC).
Rajani Thiranagama, 35, Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist and feminist, assassinated.




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Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, 60, Nigerian Executive Governor of defunct Nigerian Bendel State).
Irving Berlin, 101, Russian-born American songwriter ("Puttin' On the Ritz", "White Christmas"), heart attack.
Bob Calihan, 71, American NBL basketballer and coach (Detroit Eagles).
John E. Hunt, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chunilal Madan, 76, Kenyan Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Haruo Maekawa, 78, Japanese businessman, governor of the Bank of Japan.
Irving Naxon, 87, American inventor (slow cooker).




= 23

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Austin R. Brunelli, 82, American general in the United States Marine Corps.
Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, 53, Bangladeshi songwriter and poet.
Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer.
John T. Koehler, 85, American navy commander, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer.
William G. Rohrer, 79, American businessman and politician, mayor of Haddon Township, New Jersey.
William Traylor, 58, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.




= 24

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Åke Pleijel, 76, Swedish mathematician (Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function).
Earl E. Stone, 93, American rear admiral in the United States Navy, director of the Armed Forces Security Agency.
Shri Yogendra, 91, Indian yoga guru, author and poet.




= 25

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Wally Floody, 71, Canadian fighter pilot and prisoner of war ("Great Escape").
Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Nowell Myres, 86, British archaeologist, Bodley's Librarian.




= 26

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Pavlos Bakoyannis, 54, Greek politician, assassinated.
Jimmy Delaney, 75, Scottish international footballer (Manchester United, Celtic, Scotland).
Kaj Franck, 77, Finnish designer and applied artist.
Leo Gottlieb, 93, American lawyer (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton).
Hemant Kumar, 69, Indian music director and playback singer, heart attack.
William Post Jr., 88, American actor, pulmonary disease.




= 27

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Sergie Sovoroff, 88, American Aleut educational leader.




= 28

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José Arribas, 68, Spanish professional footballer and manager (Le Mans).
Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines, cardiac arrest.
Evan McCaskey, 24, American guitarist (Exodus, Blind Illusion), suicide.
Michael F. Skerry, 80, American politician, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.




= 29

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Gussie Busch, 90, American brewing magnate (Anheuser-Busch), owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, pneumonia.
Mark Dignam, 80, English actor.
János Farkas, 47, Hungarian footballer (Vasas, Hungary) and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.
Geoffrey Sumner, 80, British actor.
Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 81, French lawyer and far-right politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies, Vichy collaborator.
Georges Ulmer, 70, Danish-born French composer and actor.
Gunnar Wiklund, 54, Swedish singer.




= 30

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Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer and ornithologist.
Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet.
Manju Dey, 63, Indian actress and director (Carey Saheber Munshi).
William M. Fairbank, 72, American physicist (low-temperature physics), heart attack.
Derelys Perdue, 87, American silent-screen actress and dancer.
Huỳnh Tấn Phát, 76, Vietnamese architect and politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam.
Virgil Thomson, 92, American composer.
John T. Walker, 64 American Roman Catholic leader, Bishop of Washington, heart failure.




= Unknown date

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Vittorio Scarpati, 35–36, Italian and American artist and cartoonist, AIDS.




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