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The following is a list of notabledeaths in September 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.

• Kevin Andrews, 65, American archaeologist and writer, drowned.^[1]
• Paul Chung, 30, Hong Kong actor, suicide.
• Kazimierz Deyna, 41, Polish international footballer (Legia Warsaw,Poland), car accident.^[2]
• Bart Giamatti, 51, AmericanCommissioner of Major League Baseball, heart attack.^[3]
• Cyril Gill, 87, British Olympic sprinter (1928).^[4]
• Dipa Ma, 78, Indian meditation teacher.^[5]
• Albert Outler, 80, American Methodist historian and pastor, stroke.^[6]
• Shah Azizur Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi politician,Prime Minister of Bangladesh.^[7]
• Leslie Runciman, 89, British shipping magnate.^[8]
• Tadeusz Sendzimir, 95, Polish engineer and inventor, stroke.^[9]
• Yevgeny Veltistov, 55, Soviet writer and screenwriter.

• Clifton Parker, 84, British composer.
• Brian Robinson, appr. 27, Northern Ireland loyalist militant (Ulster Volunteer Force), shot.^[10]

• John Augustine Collins, 90,Royal Australian Navy vice admiral,Chief of Navy.^[11]
• Augie Lio, 71, American NFL footballer (Detroit Lions).^[12]
• Sten Mellgren, 89, Swedish Olympic footballer (1924).^[13]
• Gaetano Scirea, 36, Italian international footballer (Juventus,Italy), car accident.^[14]
• Rip Sewell, 82, American Major League baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).^[15]
• Meena Shorey, 67, Pakistani film actress (Ek Thi Larki).

• Gastón Cibert, 71, Argentine Olympic sailor (1948).^[16]
• Colin Clark, 83, British and Australian economist and statistician (gross national product).^[17]
• Zenon Kliszko, 80, Polish politician.^[18]
• Hal Lee, 84, American MLB player (Brooklyn Robins,Philadelphia Phillies,Boston Braves/Bees).^[19]
• Carl-August von Schoenebeck, 91, Nazi German general in the Luftwaffe.^[20]
• Georges Simenon, 86, Belgian writer (Jules Maigret), complications from a fall.^[21]
• Sir Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand–born British classicist and historian (The Roman Revolution).^[22]

• Les Allen, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Sir Philip Baxter, 84, British and Australian chemical engineer, chairman of theAustralian Atomic Energy Commission.^[23]
• Michael Fidler, 73, British politician, Member of Parliament.^[24]
• William Mann, 65, English music critic, complications from surgery.^[25]
• J. Barkley Rosser, 81, American logician (Church–Rosser theorem), aneurysm.^[26]

• Jessie Mae Brown Beavers, 66, American journalist.^[27]
• Edwin Arthur Burtt, 96, American philosopher.^[28]
• Imre Hennyei, 76, Hungarian Olympic fencer (1948,1952).^[29]
• Mick Higgins, 78, Australian rules footballer.^[30]
• Muhammad Ibrahim, 77, Bangladeshi physician.^[31]
• Gina Manès, 96, French film actress.^[32]
• Stephen Nankervis, 99, Australian rules footballer.^[33]
• Héctor Ricardo, 64, Argentine footballer.^[34]
• Jimmy Ruffell, 89, English international footballer (West Ham United,England).^[35]

• Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman, World Championship gold medalist, heart attack.^[36]
• Valery Goborov, 23, Soviet basketball player, Olympic gold medalist (1988), car crash.^[37]
• Mikhail Goldstein, 71, German composer and violinist.^[38]
• Joseph McCann, 63, Australian Olympic diver (1956).^[39]

• Frederic L. Chapin, 60, American diplomat, ambassador to Ethiopia, Guatemala and Chad, cancer.^[40]
• Keef Cowboy, 28, American rapper, invented term "hip hop", drug overdose.
• Henri Disy, 76, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1936).^[41]
• Ann George, 86, English actress (Crossroads), cancer.
• Aleardo Simoni, 87, Italian cyclist.^[42]
• Paul Alfred Weiss, 91, Austrian and American biologist.^[43]

• Elephter Andronikashvili, 78, Georgian physicist.^[44]
• Heinrich Angst, 73, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (1948,1956).^[45]
• Christopher Chancellor, 85, British journalist, general manager ofReuters.^[46]
• Radharani Devi, 85, Indian poet.^[47]
• Oleksiy Fedorov, 88, Soviet army general,Hero of the Soviet Union.^[48]
• Josette Frank, 96, American children's literature expert, pneumonia.^[49]
• Tim Hovey, 44, American child actor, road manager ofGrateful Dead, suicide.^[50]
• Vince Hughes, 83, Australian rugby league footballer.
• John McShain, 92, American building contractor, "The Man Who Built Washington", stroke.^[51]

• Okie Blanchard, 86, American college football player and coach (Wyoming Cowboys).
• Dutch Elston, 70, American football player and coach.^[52]
• Charles H. Griffin, 63, American politician, member of theUnited States House of Representatives (1968-1973).^[53]
• Jeff Stollmeyer, 68,Trinidad and Tobago test cricketer and captain (West Indies) andsenator, wounds from home invaders.^[54]

• Lucy Carnegie Ferguson, 89, American preservationist (Cumberland Island).^[55]
• Paul Gann, 77, American political activist, pneumonia.^[56]
• Norman Goff, 68, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1956).^[57]
• Bill Wood, 67, Australian rules footballer.^[58]

• Henry Benton, 70, Australian rugby league player.^[59]
• Josef Boháč, 75, Czechoslovak Olympic ice hockey player (1936).^[60]
• George Gniel, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Gladys Jayawardene, Sri Lankan physician, chairman ofState Pharmaceuticals Corporation of Sri Lanka, assassinated.^[61]
• John D. Landers, 69 American officer in theUnited States Army Air Forces.^[62]
• Anton Lubowski, 37, Namibian anti-apartheid activist and advocate, assassinated.^[63]
• Fishbait Miller, 80, AmericanDoorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.^[64]
• Sterjo Spasse, 75, Albanian prose writer and novelist.
• Seamus Twomey, 69, Irish republican militant activist, chief of staff of theProvisional I.R.A..^[65]
• Don Walker, 81, American Broadway orchestrator and composer.^[66]

• Acharya Aatreya, 68, Indian poet, playwright and screenwriter.
• Gilles Andriamahazo, 70, Madagascan general in the French army, head of state of Madagascar, heart attack.^[67]
• Jack Baldwin, 68, American football player.^[68]
• Sir David Bartlett, 77, British Olympic fencer (1936).^[69]
• John Bunyan, 84, American NFL player (Staten Island Stapletons,Brooklyn Dodgers).^[70]
• Zoltán Dudás, 56, Hungarian Olympic footballer (1960).^[71]
• Arieh Dulzin, 76, Israeli politician.
• Géza Frid, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born Dutch composer and pianist.^[72]
• Sagarika Gomes, 27, Sri Lankan newscaster, abducted and murdered.^[73]
• Kamal Irani, 57, Pakistani film actor (Shaheed), heart attack.
• Cyril Parsloe, 80, New Zealand cricketer.
• Charles H. Russell, 85, American politician, Governor of Nevada, heart attack.^[74]
• Ron Whyte, 47, American playwright, cerebral hemorrhage.^[75]
• John Yovicsin, 70, American NFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), heart disease.^[76]

• John Bright, 81, American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.^[77]
• Tim Brown, 51, American figure skater,World Figure Skating Championships medalist, AIDS.^[78]
• Castor Elzo, 71, Spanish footballer.
• Eddie McLeod, 88, New Zealand cricketer.^[79]
• Marvin Middlemark, 69, American inventor of the Rabbit Ears television antenna.^[80]
• Benjamin Peary Pal, 83, Indian plant breeder and agronomist, director of theIndian Agricultural Research Institute.^[81]
• Dámaso Pérez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader and composer, popularised themambo, stroke.^[82]
• Heinz Schmidt, 82, German journalist and editor.^[83]
• Tika Lal Taploo, 58, Indian politician, assassinated.^[84]
• Valentina, 90, Ukrainian-born American fashion designer, Parkinson's disease.^[85]
• Arnold Winkenhofer, 84, American football player and coach (Western Kentucky Hilltoppers).^[86]

• Harry Cave, 66, New Zealand test cricketer and captain (Central Districts,New Zealand).^[87]
• William C. Eddy, 87, American naval officer, engineer and inventor.^[88]
• Olga Erteszek, 73, Polish-born American lingerie designer and company owner, breast cancer.^[89]
• Jan DeGaetani, 56, Americanmezzo-soprano, leukemia.^[90]
• Michael Klinger, 68, British film producer and distributor.^[91]
• Robert Penn Warren, 84, American poet and novelist, prostate cancer.^[92]
• John Burr Williams, 88, American economist (intrinsic value).^[93]
• Jack Zwirewich, 60, Canadian Olympic rower (1948,1952).^[94]

• Bruno Heck, 72, German politician (Minister of Family Affairs and Youth).
• Archie Leitch, 83, Australian rules footballer.^[95]
• Georg Schewe, Nazi German officer with theKriegsmarine.^[96]
• Allen Shields, 62, American mathematician, (functional analysis), cancer.^[97]
• Anatoly Slivko, 50, Soviet serial killer, executed.
• Steven Stayner, 24, American kidnapping victim, motor cycle collision.^[98]
• Anthony Trafford, 57, British politician, Member of Parliament and theHouse of Lords, lung cancer.^[99]

• Hugh Quincy Alexander, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1963).^[100]
• Leon Culberson, 70, American Major League baseball player (Boston Red Sox).^[101]
• Richard Hull, 82, British Army field marshall,Chief of the General Staff, cancer.^[102]
• Lionel Malamed, 64, American NBA basketballer (Indianapolis Jets), heart attack.^[103]
• José Martínez-Zorilla, 76, Mexican-American football player and Olympic fencer (1936).^[104]
• 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.^[105]
• Salvador Tió, 77, Puerto Rican poet and writer, coined the term "Spanglish".^[106]
• Don Vines, 57, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer (Wakefield Trinity,Great Britain).

• Alexander Fletcher, 60, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.^[107]
• Henry K. Fluck, 77, American army officer.
• Maryat Lee, 66, American playwright and theatre director, heart disease.^[108]
• Doug Munro, 72, Australian rules footballer.^[109]
• Peter Phipps, 80, New Zealand vice admiral in theRoyal New Zealand Navy, car accident.^[110]
• Aleksandra Śląska, 63, Polish film actress.^[111]
• Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker and actor (Flaming Creatures), AIDS.^[112]

• Vera Barclay, 95, English scouting pioneer and an author.^[113]
• Raymond Holman, 70, Australian cricketer.
• Alma Lavenson, 92, American photographer.^[114]
• Philip Sayer, 42, British actor (Xtro), cancer.^[115]
• Willie Steele, 66, American long-jumper and Olympic gold medalist (1948), cancer.^[116]

• Stig Andersson-Tvilling, 61, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1952,1956).^[117]
• Ruth Bailey, 76, American actress.
• Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist and revolutionist.^[118]
• Charley Booker, 64, American blues singer and guitarist.^[119]
• Richie Ginther, 59, American race car driver, heart attack.^[120]
• Roy W. Johnson, 97, American football, basketball and baseball coach.^[121]
• David Loxton, 46, Canadian-born British and American documentary producer, pancreatic cancer.^[122]
• Tuti Indra Malaon, 49, Indonesian actress and dancer (Wadjah Seorang Laki-laki), internal bleeding.
• Gustl Müller, 85, German Olympic skier (1928).^[123]
• James Paster, 44, American serial killer, executed.^[124]
• Len Pye, 78, Australian rules footballer.^[125]

• Bill Barron, 62, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.^[126]
• Garrett H. Byrne, 91, American lawyer and politician, district attorney ofSuffolk County, Massachusetts.
• Murry Dickson, 73, American Major League baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), emphysema.^[127]
• Ertem Eğilmez, 60, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter, cancer.^[128]
• Corrado Gaipa, 64, Italian actor and voice actor (The Godfather).^[129]
• Norman Morley, 90, BritishNaval Reserve officer.
• Gene Nobles, 76, American radio disc jockey (WLAC).
• Mark Smerchanski, 74, Canadian politician, member of theHouse of Commons of Canada (1968-1972).^[130]
• Rajani Thiranagama, 35, Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist and feminist, assassinated.

• Chuffie Alexander, 87, American Negro League baseball player.^[131]
• Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, 60, Nigerian Executive Governor of defunct NigerianBendel State).
• Irving Berlin, 101, Russian-born American songwriter ("Puttin' On the Ritz","White Christmas"), heart attack.^[132]
• Bob Calihan, 71, American NBL basketballer and coach (Detroit Eagles).^[133]
• John E. Hunt, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967-1975).^[134]
• Chunilal Madan, 76, Kenyan Chief Justice of theSupreme Court.
• Haruo Maekawa, 78, Japanese businessman, governor of theBank of Japan.^[135]
• Irving Naxon, 87, American inventor (slow cooker).^[136]

• Sal Aunese, 21, American college football player (Colorado Buffaloes).^[137]
• Austin R. Brunelli, 82, American general in theUnited States Marine Corps.^[138]
• Nick Clausen, 89, Danish Olympic boxer (1920).^[139]
• Vail Jewell, 79, American Negro Leagues baseball player.^[140]
• Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, 53, Bangladeshi songwriter and poet.^[141]
• Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer.^[142]
• John T. Koehler, 85, American navy commander, United StatesAssistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer.^[143]
• William G. Rohrer, 79, American businessman and politician, mayor ofHaddon Township, New Jersey.^[144]
• Angelo Ross, 78, American film editor and sound engineer (Smokey and the Bandit).^[145]
• William Traylor, 58, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.

• Chuck Bond, 75, American NFL player (Washington Redskins).^[146]
• Charles Hutter, 73, American Olympic swimmer (1936).^[147]
• Åke Pleijel, 76, Swedish mathematician (Minakshisundaram–Pleijel zeta function).^[148]
• Earl E. Stone, 93, American rear admiral in the United States Navy, director of the Armed Forces Security Agency.^[149]
• Shri Yogendra, 91, Indian yoga guru, author and poet.

• Pedro Amorim, 69, Brazilian footballer.^[150]
• Wally Floody, 71, Canadian fighter pilot and prisoner of war ("Great Escape").^[151]
• Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member ofPennsylvania House of Representatives.^[152]
• Nowell Myres, 86, British archaeologist,Bodley's Librarian.^[153]

• Pavlos Bakoyannis, 54, Greek politician, assassinated.^[154]
• Jimmy Delaney, 75, Scottish international footballer (Manchester United,Celtic,Scotland).^[155]
• Kaj Franck, 77, Finnish designer and applied artist.^[156]
• Leo Gottlieb, 93, American lawyer (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton).^[157]
• Hemant Kumar, 69, Indian music director and playback singer, heart attack.^[158]
• William Post Jr., 88, American actor, pulmonary disease.^[159]

• Sergie Sovoroff, 88, American Aleut educational leader.

• José Arribas, 68, Spanish professional footballer and manager (Le Mans).^[160]
• Gerardo Castañeda, 63, Guatemalan Olympic sports shooter (1968).^[161]
• Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman,President of the Philippines, cardiac arrest.^[162]
• Evan McCaskey, 24, American guitarist (Exodus,Blind Illusion), suicide.
• Paul Schaeffer, 77, American NHL player (Chicago Black Hawks).^[163]
• Michael F. Skerry, 80, American politician, speaker of theMassachusetts House of Representatives.^[164]
• Ronald Swain, 86, BritishRAF officer.^[165]

• Gussie Busch, 90, American brewing magnate (Anheuser-Busch), owner of theSt. Louis Cardinals, pneumonia.^[166]
• Mark Dignam, 80, English actor.
• Paul Elzey, 43, American AFL player (Cincinnati Bengals).^[167]
• János Farkas, 47, Hungarian footballer (Vasas,Hungary) and Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.^[168]
• Ermance Rejebian, 83, Armenian-born American book reviewer, lecturer, broadcaster and writer (d.1989)^[169]
• Geoffrey Sumner, 80, British actor.^[170]
• Adrian Swan, 59, Australian Olympic figure skater (1952).^[171]
• Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 81, French lawyer and far-right politician, member of theChamber of Deputies,Vichy collaborator.
• Georges Ulmer, 70, Danish-born French composer and actor.^[172]
• Gunnar Wiklund, 54, Swedish singer.

• Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer and ornithologist.^[173]
• Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet.
• Manju Dey, 63, Indian actress and director (Carey Saheber Munshi).^[174]
• William M. Fairbank, 72, American physicist (low-temperature physics), heart attack.^[175]
• Derelys Perdue, 87, American silent-screen actress and dancer.^[176]
• Huỳnh Tấn Phát, 76, Vietnamese architect and politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam.^[177]
• Arthur Rook, 68, British Olympic equestrian (1956).^[178]
• Artur Schmitt, 78, German Olympic gymnast (1952).^[179]
• Ludwig Schuberth, 78, Austrian Olympic handball player (1936).^[180]
• Virgil Thomson, 92, American composer.^[181]
• John T. Walker, 64 American Roman Catholic leader, Bishop of Washington, heart failure.^[182]
• Roy Weir, 78, American MLB player (Boston Bees).^[183]

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

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