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The following is a list of notabledeaths in March 1989.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Annie Ackerman, 75, American political activist.^[1]
• Mukul Dey, 93, Indian artist (drypoint-etching).
• Sammy Moore, 88, Irish Olympic water polo player (1928).^[2]
• Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician,Governor of Rajasthan.^[3]
• Odie Payne, 62, American blues drummer.^[4]
• Frank W. Preston, 92, English-American engineer, ecologist and conservationist.^[5]
• Mark M. Ravitch, 78, American surgeon (surgical staples), colon and prostate cancer.^[6]

• Liviu Cornel Babeș, 46, Romanian electrician and painter, committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
• John Bryans, British actor (Blake's 7).
• Claus Egil Feyling, 72, Norwegian politician.
• Luigi Firpo, 74, Italian historian and politician.
• Tamás Kertész, 59, Hungarian international footballer and coach (Ferencvárosi,Hungary).
• Ernest Steven Monteiro, 84, Singaporean physician, Singapore Ambassador to the United States, Cambodia and Brazil, liver failure.^[7]

• James Brook, 92, English cricketer.
• Bill Harvey, 80, American Negro Leagues baseball player.^[8]
• Jackie Hegan, 88, English Olympic footballer (1920).^[9]
• Ned McGehee, 81, American college baseball and football coach (Southeastern Louisiana Lions).
• Richard B. Morris, 84, American historian, melanoma.^[10]
• Dong Qiwu, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.^[11]
• Vytautas Vičiulis, 37, Lithuanian painter, self-immolation as a political protest.^[12]

• Agha Ibrahim Akram, 65, Pakistani army general.
• Tiny Grimes, 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis.^[13]
• Viktor Nikiforov, 57, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1956).^[14]
• Edward Makuka Nkoloso, 69–70, member of Zambian resistance movement, planned to beat the U.S. and Soviet Union to the moon.^[15]

• Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist, founder ofGhadar Party.^[16]
• Daniel Webster Cluff, 72, United States Coast Guard officer, rescued thirty-two survivors fromSS Pendleton.^[17]
• Wes Dove, 25, American NFL player (Seattle Seahawks).^[18]
• James Edwin Doyle, 86, American advertising executive, co-founder ofDoyle Dane Bernbach agency, emphysema.^[19]
• Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor of busts.^[20]
• Ray Hunt, 70, Australian rules footballer.^[21]

• Harry Andrews, 77, English actor (The Hill,The Agony and the Ecstasy).^[22]
• John Green, 67, American NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles).^[23]
• Hans-Joachim Hannemann, 73, German Olympic rower (1936).^[24]
• Alla Ilchun, 62, Chinese-born Kazakh fashion model.^[25]
• Raja Hossain Khan, 50–51, Bangladeshi composer and violinist, road accident.
• Franca Marzi, 62, Italian film actress (Nights of Cabiria).
• Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi, 79, Indian-born Pakistani freedom fighter.
• Fritz Stoll, 80, American Olympic soccer player (1936).^[26]
• Werner Walldén, 89, Finnish Olympic equestrian (1936).^[27]

• Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter (Houston Wrestling), heart attack.^[28]
• Jerry Bywaters, 82, American artist, museum director and art critic.^[29]
• Jean Colin, 83, English actress.^[30]
• Avis DeVoto, 84, American culinary editor and cook, pancreatic cancer.
• Gi Hyeong-do, 28–29, Korean poet (The Black Leaf in My Mouth).^[31]
• Judson Philips, 85, American writer, emphysema.^[32]
• Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist.
• Karel Velebný, 57, Czech jazz musician and composer.

• Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dualWomen's World Chess Champion.^[33]
• Dale Coogan, 58, American MLB player (Pittsburgh Pirates).^[34]
• Albert De Roocker, 85, Belgian Olympic fencer (1924,1928).^[35]
• Charles Exbrayat, 82, French fiction writer.
• Winfried Freudenberg, 32, East German defector, gas balloon crash.^[36]
• Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer and songwriter (This Ole House),Billy Graham crusader, brain cancer.^[37]
• Herman Kogan, 74, American journalist (Chicago Daily News,Chicago Sun-Times).^[38]
• Robert Lacoste, 90, French socialist politician, member of theNational Assembly and senator.
• Chhuttan Lal Meena, 68, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
• Stanley Wijesundera, 65, Sri Lankan professor of Biochemistry, vice chancellor of theUniversity of Colombo, assassinated.^[39]

• Kermit Beahan, 70, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, bombardier on theBockscar atomic bomb flight, heart attack.^[40]
• André Hornez, 83, French lyricist (C'est si bon;Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches).
• Robert Mapplethorpe, 42, American photographer, complications from AIDS.^[41]
• Sam Melville, 52, American film and television actor, heart failure.^[42]
• Sean O'Sullivan, 37, Canadian politician and Roman Catholic priest, leukemia.^[43]
• Mihemed Şêxo, 41, Kurdish folk singer.
• Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist (1932).^[44]

• Selwyn Jepson, 89, English mystery and detective author and screenwriter (Man Running).
• Maurizio Merli, 49, Italian film actor (Catene,Violent Rome), myocardial infarction.

• Joe Bartos, 62, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).^[45]
• William Challee, 84, American actor (Five Easy Pieces).^[46]
• Joseph Ferriola, 61, American mobster, boss of theChicago Outfit, complications after heart transplant.^[47]
• Julius Hansen, 92, Danish Olympic sports shooter (1936).^[48]
• James Kee, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1965-1973).^[49]
• John J. McCloy, 93, American diplomat and presidential advisor, Assistant Secretary of War, pulmonary edema.^[50]
• Edward A. Weeks, 91, American writer, editor ofThe Atlantic.^[51]

• Maurice Evans, 87, English actor (Planet of the Apes), (Bewitched), heart failure.^[52]
• Jakob Gimpel, 82, Polish-born concert pianist.^[53]
• Thaddeus B. Hurd, 85, American architect and historian.^[54]
• Kiyoshi Mutō, 86, Japanese architect and structural engineer (Keio Plaza Hotel,Kasumigaseki Building).^[55]
• John Baptist Lucius Noel, 99, British mountaineer and filmmaker (1924 British Mount Everest expedition).^[56]
• Frederick Ramsden, 78, English-born Scottish cricketer.
• Chet Soda, 80, American businessman, general manager of theOakland Raiders.
• Bill Speer, 46, Canadian NHL player (Pittsburgh Penguins,Boston Bruins).^[57]
• Carlos Terry, 32, American NBA basketballer (Washington Bullets), car accident.^[58]
• Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor.

• L. E. Baynes, 86, English aeronautical engineer, developed the Scud gliders.
• Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure.
• Salvatore Dell'Isola, 88, Italian conductor.^[59]
• Carl von Horn, 85, Swedish Army general.
• Tice James, 74, American Negro Leagues baseball player.^[60]
• Jo Mommers, 61, Dutch Olympic footballer (1952).^[61]
• Reg Mulavin, 76, Australian rules footballer.^[62]
• James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1977), lung cancer.^[63]
• Fahrettin Özdilek, 90–91, Turkish Army general and politician, acting Prime Minister of Turkey.

• Edward Abbey, 62, American author (The Monkey Wrench Gang,Desert Solitaire), environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery.^[64]
• Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president ofBechtel Corporation.^[65]
• Charles Billingslea, 74, American general in the U.S. Army (Distinguished Service Cross), pneumonia.^[66]
• Chang Hsing-hsien, 79, Taiwanese Olympic athlete (1932,1936).^[67]
• Chris Cortemeglia, 85, American NFL player (Frankford Yellow Jackets).^[68]
• Charles Roy Henderson, 77, American statistician (Best linear unbiased prediction), pioneer in animal breeding.^[69]
• Happy Humphrey, 62, American wrestler, heaviest professional wrestler of all time (364 kg), heart attack.^[70]
• Mark Kilroy, 21, American kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.^[71]
• Omar Knedlik, 72, American inventor and businessman (ICEE frozen drink).^[72]
• Timothy Meyers, 43, American actor (Grease), AIDS.^[73]
• Egon Morbitzer, 62, German violinist, concertmaster ofStaatskapelle Berlin, cancer.
• Gladys Pyle, 98, American politician, U.S. Senator.^[74]
• Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria, wife ofCharles I.^[75]

• Henry Cass, 85, British director.
• Manlio Di Rosa, 74, Italian Olympic fencer (1936,1948,1952,1956).^[76]
• Mohamed Jameel Didi, 73, Maldivian politician, Minister of Justice and Attorney General.^[77]
• Charles Schultz, 73, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers).^[78]

• Raymond Affleck, 66, Canadian architect, founder of architectural firmArcop (Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver).^[79]
• Georges Blond, 82, French writer, sympathiser with fascism.
• Eddie Buczynski, 42, American archaeologist and follower ofWicca, parasitic infection.^[80]
• Harry Englund, 88, American NFL player (Chicago Staleys/Bears).^[81]
• Denver D. Hargis, 67, American politician, member of theUnited States House of Representatives (1959-1961).^[82]
• Jack Harrison, 73, Australian rules footballer.^[83]
• Pierre Huylebroeck, 66, Belgian Olympic speed skater (1948,1952,1956).^[84]
• Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile.^[85]
• George Lynn, 73, American composer, conductor and pianist.^[86]
• Marcus Morris, 73, English Anglican priest, founded theEagle weekly comic.
• Alan Redpath, 82, British-American evangelist and author.

• Adeola Aboyade-Cole, 38, Nigerian Olympic hurdler (1972).
• Beulah Ream Allen, 92, American nurse and physician, civilian physician during World War II (Medal of Freedom).
• Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, 69, Indian politician,Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, consequence of surgery.
• Merritt Butrick, 29, American actor (Square Pegs), toxoplasmosis complicated by AIDS.
• Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, 87, Dutch-American mechanical engineer.
• Fred R. Haviland Jr., 73, AmericanWWII flying ace.^[87]
• George Vernon Russell, 83, American architect in California.
• Ed Sanneman, 86, Australian rules footballer.^[88]

• Helen Beebe, 80, American teacher of the deaf and pioneer ofauditory-verbal therapy.
• Walter Fedorick, 71, Canadian Olympic long-distance runner (1948).^[89]
• Harold Jeffreys, 97, British geophysicist, opponent of plate tectonics.
• Ryūzō Kikushima, 75, Japanese writer and film producer (Throne of Blood,The Hidden Fortress).
• Piet Kruiver, 51, Dutch international footballer (Feyenoord,PSV Eindhoven,Netherlands).
• George P. Mahoney, 87, American politician.
• William Olander, 38, American curator at theNew Museum of Contemporary Art, AIDS.^[90]
• Werner Proft, 87, German Olympic field hockey player (1928).^[91]
• Duane Purvis, 76, American footballer and javelin thrower.
• Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema.^[92]

• Alan Civil, 59, British horn player (BBC Symphony Orchestra), liver and kidney failure.^[93]
• Normie Glick, 61, American NBA basketballer (Minneapolis Lakers).
• Ethel Hays, 97, American syndicated cartoonist (Raggedy Ann).
• Charles Lamb, 88, British stage, film, radio and television actor (Mrs Dale's Diary).
• Joe Malay, 83, American MLB player (New York Giants).^[94]
• Valérie Quennessen, 31, French theatre and film actress (Summer Lovers,Conan the Barbarian), car accident.
• Joe Rose, 23, Canadian LGBT rights activist, murdered.

• Fred Beattie, 79, English cricketer.^[95]
• Archie Bleyer, 79, American song arranger and bandleader (Gordon MacRae show), and founder ofCadence Records.^[96]
• Ray Cook, 52, Australian conductor, composer, and arranger.
• Alan Gifford, 78, American-born actor in the UK (2001: A Space Odyssey).
• Mogens Lüchow, 70, Danish Olympic fencer (1948,1952).^[97]
• Francis Russell, 79, American author (Sacco-Vanzetti case).
• Dina Sfat, 50, Brazilian actress.
• Basil Whitener, 73, American politician, member of theUnited States House of Representatives (1957-1969).^[98]
• Per Winge, 75, Danish Olympic sports shooter (1952).^[99]

• Sneeze Achiu, 86, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles).
• David Cairns, 79, English Navy rear-admiral, president of theRoyal Naval College, Greenwich.
• Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach (Philadelphia Eagles,Calgary Stampeders).^[100]
• Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist and anthropologist, lung cancer.^[101]
• Milton Frome, 80, American actor, congestive heart failure.^[102]
• Raymond Herbaux, 69, French Olympic weightlifter (1948).^[103]
• John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer.
• George Schlitz, 79, Australian rules footballer.^[104]

• Park Am, 64, South Korean actor.
• Vince Hamilton, 73, Australian rules footballer.^[105]
• Ann Harrison, 15, American murder victim.
• Wally Heider, 66, American recording engineer and recording studio owner.^[106]
• Russ Meredith, 91, American NFL player (Cleveland Bulldogs), and politician.^[107]
• Gino Piserchio, 44, American actor, composer and musician, AIDS.
• Peta Taylor, 76, English cricketer.

• F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottishpsephologist, suicide.
• Adrien Deschryver, 49, Belgian photographer and conservationist, chief warden ofKahuzi-Biega National Park.
• Pavle Gregorić, 96, Yugoslavian communist politician, Minister for Croatia.
• Speedo Loughran, 91, American college football and basketball player and coach.^[108]
• George Marthins, 83, Indian hockey player and gold medalist (1928).^[109]
• Bob McTaggart, 43, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
• Berl Repetur, 86–87, Soviet-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.

• Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados.
• Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist.^[110]
• Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist, founder ofKankaria Zoo.
• Charles Gardetto, 85, Monegasque Olympic rower (1928).^[111]
• Edward P. Hurt, 89, American football, basketball and track coach.
• St. Julien R. Marshall, 85, American officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Ivan Sharp, 79, Australian rules footballer.^[112]

• Sa'id Mufti, 90, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan.
• C. L. Anandan, 55, Indian actor and producer (Vijayapuri Veeran).
• Reginald Le Borg, 86, Austrian film director (San Diego, I Love You), heart attack.

• Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian general and resistance leader.
• Māris Liepa, 52, Latvian ballet dancer
• Marina Ried, 67, Russian-German stage and film actress.
• Asbjørn Ruud, 69, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (1948).^[113]
• Lewis William Walt, 76, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
• Harry Wicks, 83, British socialist activist (Communist Party of Great Britain).
• Hai Zi, 25, Chinese poet, suicide.

• May Allison, 98, American stage and silent screen actress (David Harum), respiratory failure.
• Don Basham, 62, Bible teacher and author.
• Malcolm Cowley, 90, American writer, heart attack.^[114]
• Scott Safran, 21, American video gamer, set world-record score onAsteroids, fall from building.
• Cláudio Santoro, 69, Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist.
• Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director (Blazing Saddles,First Blood), kidney failure.
• Sam Tsoutsouvas, 71, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).^[115]

• Joseph Adefarasin, 67, Nigerian lawyer and High Court judge.
• Nick Bremigan, 43, American Major League baseball umpire (American League), heart attack.^[116]
• Fang Chih, 93, Chinese politician, diplomat, author and Kuomintang official.
• William D. Cox, 79, American businessman and sports executive (Philadelphia Phillies,International Soccer League).
• Ian Dalrymple, 85, British screenwriter, film director and producer (The Lion Has Wings,The Wooden Horse).
• Richard H. Ellis, 69, United States Air Force general, commander in chief of theStrategic Air Command.
• Josiah Zion Gumede, 69, president of unrecognised state ofZimbabwe Rhodesia.
• Arthur Hill, 94, Irish peer, Marquess of Downshire.
• Madeleine Ozeray, 80, Belgian stage and film actress, cancer.
• Patrick Vallençant, 42, French alpinist and skier, pioneer in ski mountaineering, abseiling accident.
• Lockwood West, 83, British actor, cancer.
• Robert J. Wilke, 74, American film and television actor.

• Abdullah al-Ahdal, Imam of Belgium, shot.
• Bernard Blier, 73, Argentina-born French actor.^[117]
• Chico Che, 43, Mexican musician, singer and songwriter, stroke.
• Fernand Gambiez, 86, French Army general.
• Aleksandr Prokopenko, 35, Belarusian international footballer (Dinamo Minsk,Soviet Union), choked on food.
• Xiao Jinguang, 86, Chinese fleet admiral, Commander of People's Liberation Army Navy, colon cancer.
• Nicolae Steinhardt, 76, Romanian writer and Orthodox monk.
• Charles Taylor, 78, English businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.

• Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1969-1989), bone cancer.^[118]
• Peter D'Aguiar, 76–77, Guyanese-Portuguese businessman and politician, Minister of Finance.
• Mary Heaton, 78, British Olympic gymnast (1936).^[119]
• Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist (Wonder Woman).
• Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish international footballer (Beerschot,KTP,Finland).
• Huang Wei, 85, Chinese Nationalist military general.

• Edgar C. Erickson, 92, United States Army major general,Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
• Stan Penberthy, 82, Australian rules footballer.^[120]
• Francis H. Russell, 84, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack.^[121]
• Millard Sheets, 81, American artist and architectural designer.^[122]
• Carlos Tobalina, 63–64, Peruvian-born American adult filmmaker and actor, suicide.

• Juliette Compton, 89, American actress (That Hamilton Woman).
• Michael Lubbock, 82, British military officer and businessman.
• Allan H. Mogensen, 87, American industrial engineer.
• Yoshio Shiga, 88, member of the Japanese Communist Party.

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