Deaths in March 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1989[edit]
1[edit]
- Mukul Dey, 93, Indian artist (drypoint-etching).
- Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan.[1]
- Odie Payne, 62, American blues drummer.[2]
- Frank W. Preston, 92, English-American engineer, ecologist and conservationist.[3]
- Mark M. Ravitch, 78, American surgeon (surgical staples), colon and prostate cancer.[4]
2[edit]
- Liviu Cornel Babeș, 46, Romanian electrician and painter, committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
- John Bryans, British actor (Blake's 7).
- 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.[5]
3[edit]
- Richard B. Morris, 84, American historian, melanoma.[6]
- Dong Qiwu, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.[7]
- Vytautas Vičiulis, 37, Lithuanian painter, self-immolation as a political protest.[8]
4[edit]
- Agha Ibrahim Akram, 65, Pakistani army general.
- Tiny Grimes, 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis.[9]
- Viktor Nikiforov, 57, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.[10]
- Edward Makuka Nkoloso, 69–70, member of Zambian resistance movement, planned to beat the U.S. and Soviet Union to the moon.[11]
5[edit]
- Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist, founder of Ghadar Party.[12]
- Daniel Webster Cluff, 72, United States Coast Guard officer, rescued thirty-two survivors from SS Pendleton.[13]
- James Edwin Doyle, 86, American advertising executive, co-founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, emphysema.[14]
- Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor of busts.[15]
6[edit]
- Harry Andrews, 77, English actor (The Hill, The Agony and the Ecstasy).[16]
- Alla Ilchun, 62, Chinese-born Kazakh fashion model.[17]
- 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.
7[edit]
- Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter (Houston Wrestling), heart attack.[18]
- Jerry Bywaters, 82, American artist, museum director and art critic.[19]
- Jean Colin, 83, English actress.[20]
- Avis DeVoto, 84, American culinary editor and cook, pancreatic cancer.
- Gi Hyeong-do, 28–29, Korean poet (The Black Leaf in My Mouth).[21]
- Judson Philips, 85, American writer, emphysema.[22]
- Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist.
- Jack Stanton, 67, American NBL basketballer (Anderson Duffey Packers).
- Karel Velebný, 57, Czech jazz musician and composer.
8[edit]
- Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion.[23]
- Charles Exbrayat, 82, French fiction writer.
- Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer and songwriter (This Ole House), Billy Graham crusader, brain cancer.[24]
- Herman Kogan, 74, American journalist (Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times).[25]
- Robert Lacoste, 90, French socialist politician, member of the National Assembly and senator.
- Chhuttan Lal Meena, 68, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
- Stanley Wijesundera, 65, Sri Lankan professor of Biochemistry, vice chancellor of the University of Colombo, assassinated.[26]
9[edit]
- Kermit Beahan, 70, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, bombardier on the Bockscar atomic bomb flight, heart attack.[27]
- 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.[28]
- Sam Melville, 52, American film and television actor, heart failure.[29]
- Sean O'Sullivan, 37, Canadian politician and Roman Catholic priest, leukemia.[30]
- Mihemed Şêxo, 41, Kurdish folk singer.
- Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist.[31]
10[edit]
- Selwyn Jepson, 89, English mystery and detective author and screenwriter (Man Running).
- Maurizio Merli, 49, Italian film actor (Catene, Violent Rome), myocardial infarction.
11[edit]
- William Challee, 84, American actor (Five Easy Pieces).[32]
- Joseph Ferriola, 61, American mobster, boss of the Chicago Outfit, complications after heart transplant.[33]
- James Kee, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[34]
- John J. McCloy, 93, American diplomat and presidential advisor, Assistant Secretary of War, pulmonary edema.[35]
- Edward A. Weeks, 91, American writer, editor of The Atlantic.[36]
12[edit]
- Maurice Evans, 87, English actor (Planet of the Apes), (Bewitched), heart failure.[37]
- Jakob Gimpel, 82, Polish-born concert pianist.[38]
- Kiyoshi Mutō, 86, Japanese architect and structural engineer (Keio Plaza Hotel, Kasumigaseki Building).
- John Baptist Lucius Noel, 99, British mountaineer and filmmaker (1924 British Mount Everest expedition).
- Chet Soda, 80, American businessman, general manager of the Oakland Raiders.
- Carlos Terry, 32, American NBA basketballer (Washington Bullets), car accident.
- Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor.
13[edit]
- L. E. Baynes, 86, English aeronautical engineer, developed the Scud gliders.
- Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure.
- Carl von Horn, 85, Swedish Army general.
- Aubrey Menen, 76, British author and theatre critic.
- James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
- Fahrettin Özdilek, 90–91, Turkish Army general and politician, acting Prime Minister of Turkey.
14[edit]
- Edward Abbey, 62, American author (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire), environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery.[39]
- Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president of Bechtel Corporation.[40]
- Charles Billingslea, 74, American general in the U.S. Army (Distinguished Service Cross), pneumonia.[41]
- Charles Roy Henderson, 77, American statistician (Best linear unbiased prediction), pioneer in animal breeding.[42]
- Happy Humphrey, 62, American wrestler, heaviest professional wrestler of all time (364 kg), heart attack.
- Mark Kilroy, 21, American kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.
- Omar Knedlik, 72, American inventor and businessman (ICEE frozen drink).
- Timothy Meyers, 43, American actor (Grease), AIDS.[43]
- Egon Morbitzer, 62, German violinist, concertmaster of Staatskapelle Berlin, cancer.
- Gladys Pyle, 98, American politician, U.S. Senator.
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria, wife of Charles I.
15[edit]
- Henry Cass, 85, British director.
- Muhammad Jameel Didi, 73, Maldivian politician, Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
16[edit]
- Raymond Affleck, 66, Canadian architect, founder of architectural firm Arcop (Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver).
- Georges Blond, 82, French writer, sympathiser with fascism.
- Eddie Buczynski, 42, American archaeologist and follower of Wicca, parasitic infection.
- Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile.
- George Lynn, 73, American composer, conductor and pianist.[44]
- Marcus Morris, 73, English Anglican priest, founded the Eagle weekly comic.
- Alan Redpath, 82, British-American evangelist and author.
17[edit]
- 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.
- George Vernon Russell, 83, American architect in California.
18[edit]
- Helen Beebe, 80, American teacher of the deaf and pioneer of auditory-verbal therapy.
- 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 the New Museum of Contemporary Art, AIDS.[45]
- Duane Purvis, 76, American footballer and javelin thrower.
- Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema.[46]
19[edit]
- Alan Civil, 59, British horn player (BBC Symphony Orchestra), liver and kidney failure.[47]
- 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).
- Valérie Quennessen, 31, French theatre and film actress (Summer Lovers, Conan the Barbarian), car accident.
- Joe Rose, 23, Canadian LGBT rights activist, murdered.
20[edit]
- Archie Bleyer, 79, American song arranger and bandleader (Gordon MacRae show), and founder of Cadence Records.[48]
- Alan Gifford, 78, American-born actor in the UK (2001: A Space Odyssey).
- Francis Russell, 79, American author (Sacco-Vanzetti case).
- Dina Sfat, 50, Brazilian actress.
21[edit]
- Sneeze Achiu, 86, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles).
- David Cairns, 79, English Navy rear-admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
- Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Calgary Stampeders).[49]
- Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist and anthropologist, lung cancer.[50]
- Milton Frome, 80, American actor, congestive heart failure.[51]
- John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer.
22[edit]
- Park Am, 64, South Korean actor.
- Wally Heider, 66, American recording engineer and recording studio owner.[52]
- Gino Piserchio, 44, American actor, composer and musician, AIDS.
23[edit]
- F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottish psephologist, suicide.
- Adrien Deschryver, 49, Belgian photographer and conservationist, chief warden of Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
- Pavle Gregorić, 96, Yugoslavian communist politician, Minister for Croatia.
- George Marthins, 83, Indian hockey player and gold medalist.
- Bob McTaggart, 43, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
- Berl Repetur, 86–87, Soviet-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
24[edit]
- Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados.
- Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist.[53]
- Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist, founder of Kankaria Zoo.
- 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.
25[edit]
- 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.
26[edit]
- Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian general and resistance leader.
- Māris Liepa, 52, Latvian ballet dancer
- Marina Ried, 67, Russian-German stage and film actress.
- 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.
27[edit]
- 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.[54]
- Scott Safran, 21, American video gamer, set world-record score on Asteroids, 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.
28[edit]
- Joseph Adefarasin, 67, Nigerian lawyer and High Court judge.
- Nick Bremigan, 43, American Major League baseball umpire (American League), heart attack.[55]
- 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 the Strategic Air Command.
- Josiah Zion Gumede, 69, president of unrecognised state of Zimbabwe 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.
29[edit]
- Abdullah al-Ahdal, Imam of Belgium, shot.
- Bernard Blier, 73, Argentina-born French actor.[56]
- 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.
30[edit]
- Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, bone cancer.[57]
- Peter D'Aguiar, 76–77, Guyanese-Portuguese businessman and politician, Minister of Finance.
- Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist (Wonder Woman).
- Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish international footballer (Beerschot, KTP, Finland).
- Huang Wei, 85, Chinese Nationalist military general.
31[edit]
- Edgar C. Erickson, 92, United States Army major general, Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
- Francis H. Russell, 84, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack.[58]
- Millard Sheets, 81, American artist and architectural designer.
- Carlos Tobalina, 63–64, Peruvian-born American adult filmmaker and actor, suicide.
Unknown date[edit]
- 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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